Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10396
PCMCIA boot disk won't offer network install options
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
The PCMCIA boot disk will start card services but then only offer "Local CDROM" and "Hard Disk" install options. On this same laptop (WinBook XLi with a Linksys PCMLM56) the 6.1 PCMCIA disk works (offers network install options) so it isn't my hardware. I've downloaded PCMCIA.img from 2 different mirror sites and loaded it onto different floppies to eliminate any flukes. Mike
This means that the install isn't finding your pcmcia card. Is card services being started properly (look on VC4 for log messages from cardmgr)
Complete error messages in VC4 scroll by too quickly to get everything, but it looks like card services isn't starting correctly: cardmgr [14]: fopen(stabfile) failed: No such file or directory cardmgr [14]: initializing socket 0 cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. cardmgr [14]: socket 0: Linksys EtherFast LANModem 56K cardmgr [14]: executting: 'modprobe net/8390.o' cardmgr [14]: executting: 'modprobe pcnet_cs.o' cardmgr [14]: executting: 'modprobe serial_cs.o' eth0: pcnet_reset_8390() did not complete pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address cardmgr [14]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: No such device cardmgr [14]: fopen(stabfile) failed: No such file or directory cardmgr [14]: exiting As you can see from my original notes, the 6.1 pcmcia disk works fine. Did anything in the 6.2 pcmcia image change from 6.1? Mike
It works with my Sony Vaio PCG505SX, same Linksys PCMLM56 card, although many of the same error messages were found in VT4 as well. The question still remains as to why the Winbook card services work with the 6.1 disk and not the 6.2. Is there a way to log the messages in VT4 so the complete list of errors can be examined?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7518 ***