boot floppy with 3c589 - can't load

From: Paul Campbell (pcampbell_at_kemitix.net)
Date: 12/28/03


Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:14:48 +0000
To: pcampbell@kemitix.net

I have been trying for a few days now to setup an old Compaq
Armada 1120T as a diskless workstation. However I can't get
it to find the 3c589 PCMCIA card. I've tried compiling it
as part of the kernel but had not success. So I'm now
trying using an initrd with the modules being loaded from
there.

Here is the result of the initrd's /linuxrc script as it
tries to load the 3c586_cs module. The linuxrc script
follows for reference.

 Red Hat nash version 3.5.7 starting
 mount /proc
 Loading 3c589 module...
 Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-openmosix-r2/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o
 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
   options: [pci] [cardbus]
 Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-openmosix-r2/pcmcia/ds.o
 ds: no socket drivers loaded!
 insmod: init_moduleL dsL Operation not permitted
 Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-openmosix-r2/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o
 insmod: unresolved symbol register_pccard_driver_R1c442d6c
 insmod: unresolved symbol unregister_pccard_driver_Rdb348cd2
 modprobe: failed to load module 3c589_cs
 ERROR: /bin/modprobe exited abnormally!
 Module Size Used by
 pcmcia_core 39808 0
 ERROR: /bin/lsmod exited abnormally!
 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

/linuxrc
 #!/bin/nash
 echo mount /proc
 mount -t proc /proc /proc
 echo Loading 3c589 module...
 modprobe 3c589_cs irq_list=3
 lsmod

I haven't added more to /linuxrc, to mount / over nfs, as
I need to get the 3c589 working before I fill the screen
with even more error messages.

Note that I have busybox installed in the initrd and it is
providing the mount, lsmod, insmod and modprobe
functionality.

The 3Com card does work and is found successfully by
tomsrtbt.

Any advice?

-- 
Paul Campbell
<pcampbell@kemitix.net>


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