Re: where did my eth. interface go? (PCMCIA)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <b2167673-a5dc-c813-1759-f44aca534cdd%libero.it@localhost>,
Riccardo Mottola  <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an old x86 laptop which has all network stuff in PCMCIA cardbus 
>slots. It was running 7.0 just fine, I decided to upgrade to 7.0.2, by 
>using the RAMDISK kernel.
>
>The 10/100 card intel (rebranded IBM) card worked fine, recognized as tlp0
>
>I was able to download the packages and upgrade, testifying that the 
>interface works and transfer speed was good to. [1]
>
>I was able to successfully boot into the new system and work, I also 
>updated many packages with pkg_add -U, proving that network was fine.
>
>The next day I start the laptop again and there is no interface, even if 
>the card is inserted. cardslot0 is seen, but no tlp0. If I remove and 
>reinsert the card, the kernel crashes. If I boot without card and insert 
>it later, it crashes.
>
>
>This looks like as weird behaviour, doesn't it? Of course no network 
>makes it tedious to get out logs and other things, but any clue or hint?
>
>
>Riccardo
>
>
>[1] Actually, I had to retry, the first attempt had the kernel crash 
>when processing the comp.tgz package, the second went just fine

So what's the current status? Does the kernel boot and find the card
or not?

christos