FW: Xircom Realport 10/100 CB not functioning
I had
these cards with Dell Latitudes at our company. I had to use Red Hat 6.2 for
them to work properly.
I tried doing an rmmod serial, the mod was removed, but I still had the
same results. I couldn't seem to find anything anywhere during the boot
process that calls setserial, though just for kicks I did go into
/etc/modutils/setserial and commented out everything in it. Didn't help.
Am I missing something? I do confess my knowledge of the whole boot
/ module load process is relatively limited.... <sigh>
Paul
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:22:58AM -0700,
paul@mainland.ab.ca wrote:
> >
> > Looking through the
archives, it seems people have been having success
> > using this card,
I, however, have not.
> >
> > During the intial Debian base
install, if I configure PCMCIA support, it
> > intializes fine, and
finds the Xircom card no problem and configures the
> > tulip_cb
module.
[ ... ]
> > eth0: Transmit timed out, status 686980c7,
CSR12 000000c2, resetting...
> >
> > This continues until I
bring down eth0.
>
> I had lots of problems like this. The problem
is the serial module installed
> by setserial. Either remove setserial, or
rmmod serial.o, and it should
> be happier.
>
>
Tim
The module from setserial is toasting the ethernet? And
setserial is being
involved during Debian install? Double
ick.
Although I admit freely to toasting setserial out of hand, since it
seems a
bad idea to "memorize serial port status" on a machine that (a) has
changing
serial connections based on whether a card is in, and (b) has
changing serial
connections when I'm at different sites...
My advice:
1) purge setserial. I'm not sure I believe it's at the heart of
what's
happening to you, but it has been multiple flavors of a pain in
the toot
for laptoppers.
2) If the Xircom continues to be
trouble, buy a Linksys PCMLM56. That's the
10/100 with a
built-on extension where the modem and ether ports are - the
extension
has status lights on top - and as an extra bennie, you get your
other
slot back (as long as you put it in the top bay)
* Heather *
star@starshine.org *
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