satelliteuser083 Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 I'm now back in mva2006, trying to get it working. When I try (as root) pccardctl ident the answer is ... nothing. The last time I was in 2008, everything was fine, so I'm assuming that pcmcia is not running here; could someone tell how I can test this? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Do you have the pcmcia packages installed in Mandriva 2006? rpm -qa | grep -i pcm I think the package is usually pcmcia-cs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Well, the answer was: pcmciautils-007-4mdk Is this OK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 I would have expected pcmcia-cs as well, since the utils are just the utils packages for use with pcmcia-cs if I remember correctly. The pcmcia-cs provides the services for pcmcia and using the module within the kernel from what I remember. So if you don't have pcmcia-cs, you'll not be able to use the slot. Try: urpmf --name pcmcia which will search for packages that can be installed, and see if pcmcia-cs is in that list. Or, check for the services: chkconfig --list and see if pcmcia is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) "urpmf --name pcmcia" produced: pcmcia-cs:pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-8mdk.i586.rpm pcmcia-cs-x11:pcmcia-cs-x11-3.2.8-8mdk.i586.rpm pcmciautils:pcmciautils-007-4mdk.i586.rpm and "chkconfig --list" alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off apmiser 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cpufreq 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off freshclam 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off hplip 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off laptop-mode 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lisa 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mDNSResponder 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mandi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netplugd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off nifd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off oki4daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off shorewall 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ultrabayd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xinetd based services: cups-lpd: off cvs: off rsync: off It looks as though pcmcia-services have not been loaded; I hadn't found them in MCC -> System -> Services when I'd previously checked, either Edited February 7, 2008 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 You'll need to install the pcmcia-cs package to get the service, to have the card services running. Once you have this, you'll be OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Thanks, Ian, pcmcia-cs has been installed and both pcmcia cards can now be mounted . Unfortunately, now there's another small problem: I've changed the zip-line in /etc/fstab from /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 to [/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 because, when I unmount the zip drive and remove the card, the system totally freezes and I have to reboot. This fstab-change was just an attempt to solve that problem. The effect of the change is that it is no longer possible to unmount the zip-drive from KDiskFree, but is possible at cli. So, I wrote two script, umzip (to unmount zip) and mzip. These look like this: umzip: #!/bin/bash su -c "umount /mnt/zip100" and mzip #!/bin/bash su -c "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100" Running umzip correctly unmounts the zip-drive but running mzip results in the message mzip: drive '::' is not a Zip or Jaz drive However - and this is the strange bit - if I do the command [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100 this works. I don't understand it. It appears to be a syntax problem but I can't identify it. As I've said, it's possible to mount from a root-konsole, so the problem's not particularly important but I'd just like to know WTH I'm doing wrong :unsure: . Can you help me out? Thanks. Edited February 8, 2008 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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