Binding a pcmcia net card usung udev
First my questions:
A. Is pcnet_cs still relevant under PCMCIAutils and udev, and if not, what has replaced it
B. How to tell the system to bind my card to pcnet_cs or whatever has replaced it using udev
C. It would be nice to have an example how this is done for some other LAN card
Details and background:
I have a wired PCMCIA LAN card (corega Ether PC-TTL) which used to work well in an older RedHat distribution, but does not work since I switched to Xubuntu 9.04 (kernel 2.6.28-11-generic). The problem seems to be related to the switch to PCMCIAutils (my older RedHat distro used the now depreciated pcmcia-cs). With pcmcia-cs I had to add a few lines to /etc/pcmcia/conf to tell the system to bind the card to pcnet_cs, as follows:
card "Corega FEther PCC-TL"
version "corega K.K.", "corega Ether PCC-TL"
bind "pcnet_cs"
I understand /etc/pcmica/conf is irrelevant now, and the "Linux Kernel 2.6 PCMCIA - mini-HOWTO" (http://
I have confirmed the following:
1) lsmod reports the socket as yenta_socket
2) The system detects plugging in and out the card, pccardctl correctly reports as follows:
PRODID_
PRODID_
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=
FUNCID=6
3) When plugging in and out the card, /sys/bus/
showing the correct PRODIDs etc.
4) eth0 does not appear in /sys/class/net, there are only a lo (loop) and pan0 (BlueTouth device) detected there
Thus I conclude that the system detects correctly the card, but does not know where to bind it to, and does not realize it is a LAN card. My understanding is that pcnet_cs was somewhat related to the now depreciated pcmia-cs, and it is not clear for me whether it is still usable under PCMCIAutils and udev.
The questions repeated:
A. Is pcnet_cs still relevent under PCMCIAutils and udev, and if not, what has replaced it
B. How to tell the system to bind my card to pcnet_cs or whatever has replaced it using udev
C. It would be nice to have an example how this is done for some other LAN card
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