Question: Orinoco/WaveLan ISA adapter -- problems on 486 w/2.0.35 kernel 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 2000, Jul 13
From: David D. Johnson ddj

I bought a pair of 11mb/s pc cards and an ISA adapter, and have had some problems getting the thing set up on the old system I'm using as my firewall. The system is a 486 DX/66 with 64MB ram. I have aha 1542b scsi controller, two ne200 clone NIC cards, crappy VGA, etc. The system was originally slackware, with the kernel at 2.0.35. The BIOS is AMD, and I have the feeling it doesn't support PnP. This morning I built pcmcia-cs-3.1.15 and plugged in the card. When I did make install, the etc/install-etc script hung the system when it called ../cardmgr/probe. After hitting reset and waiting forever for it to check the disks, I grabbed the pcmcia-cs-3.1.18 and built that. This time I did chmod -x on cardmgr/probe before doing the make install, and things completed. I checked lsmod, and the i82365 and ds modules were loaded. Then I did some reading here, and saw a mention of isapnp and pnpdump, so of course I had to try them out. Pnpdump also hung the system dead. Until I get home to reboot, that's where things stand. My questions: 0) Is there a search facility for HyperNews? 1) Is anyone up and running with similarly antiquated HW/SW? 2) Can I set things up without running probe? 3) Should I pack the cards up and send them back? Thanks, -- ddj Dave Johnson ddj@brown.edu

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"probe" isn't required for anything Re: Question: Orinoco/WaveLan ISA adapter -- problems on 486 w/2.0.35 kernel (David D. Johnson) Date: 2000, Jul 13 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

Do you happen to know if any of your ISA hardware is likely to conflict with the PCMCIA card reader at IO address 0x3e0? > I checked lsmod, and the i82365 and ds modules were loaded. If the i82365 module is loaded, check "dmesg" to see what it had to say about your card reader. The only purpose for running "probe" is to identify your PCMCIA card reader, but if you already know the i82365 driver is working, then that is moot. -- Dave

1. Ok: Re: "probe" isn't required for anything by David D. Johnson, 2000, Jul 13

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