After installing pcmcia-cs and rebooting the system, the PCMCIA service does not initialize correctly during boot and configure the NIC which has been inserted. If the service is started manually afterwards, it works successfully. Incidentally, yenta_socket does load as a module successfully afterwards. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-r1 2. rc-update add pcmcia default 3. reboot system and watch as it errors. Actual Results: * Starting pcmcia... cardmgr[2986]: no sockets found! * cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA * modules built or support compiled into the kernel. [ !! ] * Bringing eth0 up... * failed to bring eth0 up [ !! ] Expected Results: cardmgr should initialize without an error and determine that it is watching 2 sockets. As a workaround it was determined that a fix could be to insert 'sleep 1' into the init script /etc/init.d/pcmcia after $PCIC is probed but before 'pcmcia_probe ds' is ran. Here is the section from the file with this pause inserted: if [ -n "$PCIC" ]; then pcmcia_probe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS || { ewarn "'modprobe ${PCIC}' failed" ewarn "Trying alternative PCIC driver: ${PCIC_AL T}" pcmcia_probe $PCIC_ALT $PCIC_ALT_OPTS } fi # wait before continuing sleep 1 pcmcia_probe ds fi $ emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I have the same problem on a Thinkpad 770xl (PII). Tried the delay, without success. Running 'modprobe yenta_socket' gets things working though. Using Google, this seems to be a problem with the 2.6 kernel. Red Hat's Bugzilla carries a similar thread. See RH bugzilla bug #116205 for details, particularly addition comment #8 for a change to /etc/init.d/pcmcia . I'm afraid I dont understand whats being attemted here, perhaps somebody here can make some sense of it.
Are you running at least a 2.6.8 kernel? Maybe this is fixed in a ~x86 pcmcia package, or later gentoo-dev-sources, or something.
Reporter, please check if sys-apps/pcmcia-3.2.8 fixes this issue.
Closing due to lack of feedback.
