PCMCIA Ethernet card stops working
Posted: 4/15/2004 11:44:25 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Topic: Linux
I've ran into this a couple times with newer Linux installs with the 2.6 kernel where a PCMCIA network card (I've this happen with both wired and wireless NICs) will be detected and works during the installation of Linux, but after rebooting, the PCMCIA card is no longer seen. When the PCMCIA service tries to start, it returns a message "PCMCIA: no sockets found".

Something weird is going on with the 2.6 kernel which I don't understand yet, but you can get it to work by opening two command shells (as root):

In the first: tail -f /var/log/syslog
In the second: modprobe yenta_socket

If everything is set up right, you should see info about the PCMCIA card appear in syslog. If not, make sure that yenta_socket is compiled into your kernel.

You then need to do the following:

/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
/etc/init.d/network reload

Then the card should work, until the next time you reboot, then you'll have to repeat the above steps again.

If anyone knows a better fix, please post here!
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PCMCIA Ethernet card stops working
Posted: 4/15/2004 11:44:25 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Topic: Linux
thank you for this soluce.

I have the same problem with my ethernet card and I have add your instruction :
  # /sbin/modprobe yenta_socket
  # /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local

After the boot time, the network in ready

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