Bug 79709 – fails to load pcmcia modules

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Bug 79709 - fails to load pcmcia modules

Summary:	fails to load pcmcia modules

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel-pcmcia-cs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Dave Jones
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Reported:	2002-12-15 19:45 EST by John Ellson
Modified:	2015-01-04 17:02 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-10-25 21:35:35 EDT
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Description John Ellson 2002-12-15 19:45:17 EST

Description of problem:
Failure to load pcmcia modules after reboot or "service pcmcia restart" resulted
in no network connection

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-11.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -Uvh kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-11.i386.rpm hwdata-0.62-2.noarch.rpm
2. service pcmcia restart
3.
    
Actual results:
root@beermat:root# service pcmcia start
Starting PCMCIA services: modulesmodprobe: Can't locate module
/lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o
modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o
modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/pcmcia/ds.o
 cardmgr.

Expected results:
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9.i386.rpm and hwdata-0.47-1.noarch.rpm
from RedHat 8.0 work OK.  lsmod then shows (in part):

pcnet_cs               15040   1
8390                    8236   0  [pcnet_cs]
ds                      8712   2  [pcnet_cs]
yenta_socket           12928   2
pcmcia_core            54752   0  [pcnet_cs ds yenta_socket]

Additional info:
Using kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 from RedHat 8.0 updates.

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-12-16 04:39:24 EST

did you get the other requirements too of the kernel ? 
(eg modutils and kudzu etc)

Comment 2 John Ellson 2002-12-16 06:42:54 EST

I didn't --force the rpm upgrade, so can't I assume that the dependencies
are satisfied?  I tested with:
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 hwdata-0.47-1 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9 modutils-2.4.22-1
kudzu-0.99.83-1

If I downgrade kernel-pcmcia-cs and its conflicts: hwdata and kudzu, then
everything works:
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 hwdata-0.62-2 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-11 modutils-2.4.22-1
kudzu-0.99.69-1

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2002-12-16 06:45:09 EST

hmm weird; I run like that on my laptop ;(
maybe you need to do depmod -ae after installing the new modutils ?

Comment 4 John Ellson 2002-12-16 06:47:03 EST

Oops, typo:

It fails with: 
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 hwdata-0.47-1 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-11 modutils-2.4.22-1
kudzu-0.99.83-1

It works with:
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 hwdata-0.62-2 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9 modutils-2.4.22-1
kudzu-0.99.69-1

Comment 5 John Ellson 2002-12-16 06:52:49 EST

> maybe you need to do depmod -ae after installing the new modutils ?

I tried this:
rpm -Uvh modutils-2.4.22-1.i386.rpm modutils-devel-2.4.22-1.i386.rpm
depmod -ae
service pcmcia restart

same problem

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-19 16:43:53 EST

Are there errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg?

Comment 7 John Ellson 2002-12-19 19:43:14 EST

Yes, something about syntax errors in the config file:

root@beermat:rawhide#  rpm -Fvh hwdata-0.62-2.noarch.rpm
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-11.i386.rpm kudzu-0.99.83-1.i386.rpm
kudzu-devel-0.99.83-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:hwdata                 ########################################### [ 25%]
   2:kudzu                  ########################################### [ 50%]
   3:kernel-pcmcia-cs       ########################################### [ 75%]
   4:kudzu-devel            ########################################### [100%]
root@beermat:rawhide# service pcmcia restart
Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgr modules.
Starting PCMCIA services: modulesmodprobe: Can't locate module
/lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o
modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o
modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/pcmcia/ds.o
 cardmgr.
root@beermat:rawhide# tail -14 /var/log/messages
Dec 19 19:54:16 localhost su(pam_unix)[12930]: session opened for user root by
ellson(uid=500)
Dec 19 19:56:04 localhost cardmgr[2203]: executing: './network check eth0'
Dec 19 19:56:04 localhost cardmgr[2203]: executing: './network stop eth0'
Dec 19 19:56:05 localhost dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
Dec 19 19:56:05 localhost cardmgr[2203]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Dec 19 19:56:05 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported
Dec 19 19:56:06 localhost cardmgr[2203]: executing: 'modprobe -r 8390'
Dec 19 19:56:06 localhost cardmgr[2203]: exiting
Dec 19 19:56:08 localhost kernel: unloading Kernel Card Services
Dec 19 19:56:09 localhost cardmgr[13140]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Dec 19 19:56:09 localhost cardmgr[13140]: config error, file 'config' line 1056:
syntax error
Dec 19 19:56:09 localhost cardmgr[13140]: config error, file 'config' line 2136:
no function bindings
Dec 19 19:56:09 localhost cardmgr[13140]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
Dec 19 19:56:09 localhost cardmgr[13140]: exiting

Comment 8 John Ellson 2003-01-10 10:27:58 EST

This problem has gone as of:
    rawhide-release-20030109-1
    kernel-2.4.20-2.9
    kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-12

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