Why can't I see my PCMCIA in /etc/sysconfig/

[ramow]

I am a newbie so please be patient with me.

I plugged in my wireless Orinoco card in the PCMCIA slot.
I have two questions:
1. How do I know that my PCMCIA is working or detected by my linux
2. How do I know that my PC card is also detected by Linux on boot.

Here is the Linux distro

[root@dhcp13 ~]# uname -a
Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[budman7]

All the "uname -a " command does is gives the name of the kernel, not which distro you are using.
Could you let us know which distro you are using?
Each distro has it's own way of configuring things.

[ramow]

Sorry! I have a Fedora core 6. isn't this what is called distribution?
If yes then it was mentioned in the "uname -a": 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
fc6?
thanks

[ramow]

I can't find my pcmcia in /etc/sysconfig/ but when I search in the "ps" I find it running!!!
Can someone explain please. I have a Orinoco pc card plugged into it but can't find it under /etc/pcmcia/

[root@dhcp13 ~]# uname -a
Linux dhcp13.ccit.berkeley.edu 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


[root@dhcp47 sysconfig]# ps aux | grep pcmcia
root 2684 0.0 0.2 3880 692 pts/2 R+ 22:25 0:00 grep pcmcia

[root@dhcp47 pcmcia]# ls /etc/pcmcia/
bluetooth bluetooth.conf config.opts

How do I know if my pcmcia is working?

I don't understand anything!!!! Can someone help me please. I have been stuck for days on trying make my wireless card to work

[daark.child]

Have you looked in /proc/pcmcia? Also have you run "dmesg" and "lspci" to check if you card has been detected by the system? If its listed, then everything is working fine with regards to pcmcia.

[ramow]

Have you looked in /proc/pcmcia? Also have you run "dmesg" and "lspci" to check if you card has been detected by the system? If its listed, then everything is working fine with regards to pcmcia.

thanks for the help. If indeed my pcmcia is not detected what shall I do?

I don't have a pcmcia in /proc.

This is what I get for dmesg, lspci:

[root@dhcp47 rami]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8255xER/82551IT Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F69030 (rev 61)


[root@dhcp47 rami]# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 (brewbuilder@hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000cc000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
256MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 61440 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI not present or invalid.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:effc0000)
Detected 698.487 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65536
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0120a000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c079f000 soft=c077f000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 252772k/262144k available (2105k kernel code, 8732k reserved, 844k data, 240k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1398.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=2796429)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f1ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
sizeof(vma)=84 bytes
sizeof(page)=32 bytes
sizeof(inode)=424 bytes
sizeof(dentry)=148 bytes
sizeof(ext3inode)=600 bytes
sizeof(buffer_head)=52 bytes
sizeof(skbuff)=172 bytes
sizeof(task_struct)=1392 bytes
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 2117k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd920, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
* this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources
PCI quirk: region 1000-103f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
PCI quirk: region 1040-104f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
PCI: Firmware left 0000:00:12.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling
Boot video device is 0000:00:14.0
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 01 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 163840 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 4, 81920 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1181673534.968:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key EAA0802BFF323905
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Lite-On LTN483S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 370k
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0c.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 0x00001060
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
audit(1181673543.416:2): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1560 types, 166 bools, 1 sens, 1024 cats
security: 58 classes, 48173 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev dm-0, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
audit(1181673544.112:3): policy loaded auid=4294967295
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:12.0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfc020000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:30:59:01:68:E4
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.4 loaded
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 524280k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:524280k
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (2048 buckets, 16384 max) - 228 bytes per conntrack
process `sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time_ms instead.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.10
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts