Dapper Beta 2 & PCMCIA on Desktop

[theGerbil]

Hi

I have just upgraded from a fairly basic Breezy installation to Dapper BETA2 and now neither my on-board network card (wired) or my Broadcom based Belkin Wireless Card will work. Whilst getting the Wireless to work has on occasion been a challenge I have never had an issue with the Wired on-board network card before on any distro whether installed or "Live".

One of the things I have noticed is that as part of the bootup I get a message saying that PCMCIA Services have failed to start. As my PC is a Compaq Presario Desktop I am unsure as to whether I need to bother about this or whether it this could be having on impact on my network cards.

Any advice gratefully received.

[askrieger]

Re: Dapper Beta 2 & PCMCIA on Desktop

Have you looked at your /ets/network/interfaces file? You DID remeber to save a hardcopies of all your important configuration files before upgrading?

[theGerbil]

Re: Dapper Beta 2 & PCMCIA on Desktop

Errr .. no I didn't. First time I've ever heard that advice although in retrospect it's probably not a bad idea.

Anything in particular I should be looking for? Do you believe the PCMCIA failure is unrelated? The reason I ask is that I usually associate PCMCIA with laptops.

Thanks

theGerbil

[askrieger]

Re: Dapper Beta 2 & PCMCIA on Desktop

The only connection I can think of is that wireless cards are often inserted in pcmcia slots on laptops and that therefore, your wireless card uses a pcmcia driver even though it's in a PCI slot. That could have saved the card manufacturer a dime per card. However, I suspect that, since your nic is also down, the problem lies in your /etc/network/interefaces file. I can't help you with your wireless card, but my Breezy interfaces looks like this

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
	script grep
	map eth0

# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet dhcp

which is pretty standard.