Booting with "gentoo dopcmcia dokeymap" doesn't load pcmcia drivers or allow you to set the keymap Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from 2004 cd (either minimal or universal) 2. at boot prompt type in "gentoo dopcmcia dokeymap" 3. sit back and watch. Actual Results: System boots ok, but doesn't prompt you to change keyboard map or load any of the modules. There is therefore no network support :-( Expected Results: expected modules like pcmcia_core ds etc to load and the menu for keymaps to be displayed. Networking to be setup via DHCP as it used to on the v1.4 cd even running the /etc/init.d/pcmcia start script won't load the required drivers.
The dokeymap-bug is already known. For the pcmcia-thing, can you give a more specific error-message? Thanks.
There's not an error as such, it's just the required modules are not loaded so the pcmcia script can't find the pcmcia hardware in the laptop. For example, on my laptop I have to do the following before starting the init.d script: insmod pcmcia_core insmod i82365 insmod ds /etc/init.d/pcmcia start I tried modprobe, but it said that it could not locate the module. Also it appears that the dhcp services are not configured in /etc/conf.d/net. I'm not sure tho if that's because the system can't find the nic and defaults back to a static IP setup....any comments there? Once you do that the system autodetects my pcmcia network card and everything seems to work ok from there on.
*** Bug 44054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 43954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
How is this not an error? The docmentation on the dopcmcia option states that it should load pcmcia when you boot it the "gentoo dopcmcia" otpion. That implies that it should load the correct kernel drivers to accomplish the task of doing PCMCIA. If this is too difficult, then the gentoo Live CD kernel, should staticly compile these options into the kernel so that this does not fail. If gentoo is not going to load pcmcia when you give it the "gentoo dopcmcia" option, then that option needs to be removed, and the documentation needs to be updated to refelect this change. Note, the problem is that the dopcmcia option does not lead to the pcmcia modules being loaded causing cardmanager to fail to start, and I think it should start for you, rather than making you manually modprobe for it.
I'm not saying that its not an error, but at the time there were no errors displayed on my screen to indicate a problem other than the nic not working. Sorry, bad wording on my part. :-( And yes, your right in saying that if the feature has been removed from the LiveCD then the docs need to be updated. However, I can't see getting it to work to be much of a problem. The code from the v1.4 LiveCD used to work just fine :-)
The hint ... insmod pcmcia_core insmod i82365 insmod ds /etc/init.d/pcmcia start was very helpful -- it works on 2004.0 I would like to emphasize that the option dopcmcia should work as it worked in v1.4.
*** Bug 44221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 45336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
fixed - dopcmcia works fine for me.
Created attachment 30137 [details] PCMCIA problems with gentoo (2.4.24) and smp (2.6.1)
