Problems with FC 2 - Touch-pad and PCMCIA Ethernet card.

[Daniele Masini]

Hi everybody,

I'm an Italian developer/system engineer and a GNU/Linux user. I'm new on this list.
I used RedHat products since 1998.
I installed FC2 on my laptop (ACER Travelmate 212 TX) and it works quite well. The 
term "quite" referes to different working from FC1 (previuosly installed):
- The touch-pad doesn't get the left-click by simply pushing on it, as it did 
before (FC1).
- The system doesn't recognize my PCMCIA Ethernet card, as it did before (FC1).

In the following there are some details about the Ethernet card.

The Ethernet card I have:
PCMCIA Fast Ethernet 16 bit PC Card - Hamlet FE1500 10/100M

My system is:
[root at MyPC root]# uname -a
Linux MyPC.mydomain.local 2.6.6-1.435 #1 Mon Jun 14 09:09:07 EDT 2004 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux

The Hardware browser on my system shows:
PCMCIA/PC-Card devices
     OZ6812 Cardbus controller
         Manufacuter: ...
         Driver: yenta_socket

PCMCIA service (with or without the Ethernet card plugged in):
[root at MyPC root]# service pcmcia status
cardmgr is stopped
[root at MyPC root]# service pcmcia start
Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[3572]: no sockets found!
done.
[root at MyPC root]# cardmgr
cardmgr[3614]: no sockets found!


An extract from the boot log:

Jun 22 02:10:24 MyPC syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:24 MyPC syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:24 MyPC irqbalance: irqbalance startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:24 MyPC portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:25 MyPC nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:23 MyPC sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Jun 22 02:10:23 MyPC sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Jun 22 02:10:23 MyPC sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Jun 22 02:10:23 MyPC network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:23 MyPC network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:45 MyPC rpcidmapd: rpc.idmapd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:46 MyPC random: Initializing random number generator:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:46 MyPC pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services:
Jun 22 02:10:46 MyPC pcmcia: cardmgr[2595]: no sockets found!
Jun 22 02:10:46 MyPC pcmcia: done.
Jun 22 02:10:46 MyPC rc: Starting pcmcia:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:46 MyPC netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:47 MyPC autofs: automount startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:48 MyPC smartd: smartd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:48 MyPC acpid: acpid startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:49 MyPC rc: Starting hpoj:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:56 MyPC cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:56 MyPC sshd:  succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:57 MyPC xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Jun 22 02:10:59 MyPC sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
[...]

Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.

Daniele