Preview Release & NetworkManager

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:50 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008 16:05, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 April 2008 15:47, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 15:32, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 13:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > Don't see anything relevant (which doesn't mean it's not there). The
> > > > > other places to look would be /boot/config* ("grep PCMCIA" and
> > > > > compare the results), or maybe 'lspci' and/or 'lsusb'. Also
> > > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/*
> > > >
> > > > They are identical.  One possible breakthrough, though.  On the Live
> > > > system I managed to get the info screen on the connection.  It said it
> > > > was using pcnet_cs.  This isn't the device name, I guess, but probably
> > > > a driver or chipset?  Either way, that should, surely, be traceable to
> > > > our solution.
> > >
> > > I've just found this -
> > >
> > > Pcnet_cs is a driver for all NS8390-based PCMCIA ethernet cards. It can
> > > use either polled IO or a shared memory window to exchange data with the
> > > card. The driver first tests for a shared memory buffer, falling back on
> > > polled IO if the memory test fails. When this driver is bound to a card,
> > > it allocates the next available ethernet device (eth0..eth#). This device
> > > name will be reported in the kernel log file, and passed on to
> > > cardmgr(8).
> > >
> > > So - does anyone know which device from the list belongs to the NS8390
> > > group?
> >
> > According to
> > http://www.mikrotik.com/documentation/manual_2.7/DriverList.html the 3Com
> > 3c590 driver should work.  Unfortunately I'm still getting 'Device eth0
> > doesn't seem to be present' :-(
> >
> I tried to modprobe pcnet_cs, since it is listed under the drivers.  This is 
> what I found in messages -
> 
> pcnet_cs: version magic '2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 SMP mod_unload 686 
> 4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 SMP mod_unload 686 
> 4KSTACKS '

I've no idea if this will work, but:

Copy the /boot stuff (vmlinux, initrd, System.map and config) from the
Live CD into your installed /boot. Also /lib/modules, same thing.
Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to *add* (not replace) the Live CD version of
the kernel as a boot-time option.

Cross fingers and reboot, selecting the appropriate version.

poc