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by **Thomas Ruc** » Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:00:00

english version below

Hallo allerseits,

ich wrde gern diese Karte in meinem ThinkPad unter Linux nutzen, leider
habe ich noch keinen richtigen Treiber bzw. richtige Konfiguration dafr
gefunden. Vielleicht finde ich ja hier Hilfe.

Danke Thomas

Hallo,

I'm trying to use the above mentioned adapter with my ThinkPad and Linux.
Until now I did not find the proper information about which driver to use
and how to configure this. I hope, I can find help here.

Thanks Thomas

by **j_bram..** » Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:00:00

Hi,

I'm just starting with Linux, so don't expect a really technical answer. I
just know that one of the documents on Red Hat's Linux on Laptops page
that was done for the IBM Thinkpad 600E (It was the third one for that
model when I was there) may have what you are after.

The guy who did it had a customised version of PCMCIA-CS for the IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus Adapter on a TP 600E.

Regards,

James

by **Rainer Wiene** » Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:00:00

> Hallo,
> I'm trying to use the above mentioned adapter with my ThinkPad and Linux.
> Until now I did not find the proper information about which driver to use
> and how to configure this. I hope, I can find help here.
> Thanks Thomas

For this you must install the pcmcia-packages that comes with your Linux.
You also must edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. Here you can configure the
card with IP and DNS and many more.

Cu
Rainer

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by **Thomas Ruc** » Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:00:00

It does work, see below:

Thomas,

I was able to get the IBM CardBus EtherJet 10/100 card working without a
problem. If you're looking for the EtherJet + 56K Modem, I haven't had much
success.

There are several things that you need to make this work correctly.
*) The latest version of the pcmcia-cs package (3.1.4)
*) A recent kernel (2.2.5 will do fine) as I'm not sure how well a 2.0.x
kernel
deals with 3.1.4.

Compile pcmcia-cs for the kernel you're running.
Install it and make a few changes to some files it installs:
*) /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
Season to taste.

*) /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
# ThinkPad 600 stuff
include port 0x100-0x7ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff
include memory 0xd0000-0xdffff, memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
# First built-in serial port
exclude irq 4
# Second built-in serial port
exclude irq 3
# First built-in parallel port
exclude irq 7
exclude port 0x2f8-0x2ff
exclude port 0x230-0x233
exclude irq 5
*) /etc/pcmcia/config
card "IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus Adapter with 56K Modem"
manfid 0xMMMM, 0xNNNN
bind "tulip_cb" to 0

Unfortunately I can't supply the numbers for MMMM and NNNN any more. Type:
# /sbin/cardctl ident
It'll give you those values.

Once those are input, type:
# /etc/init.d/pcmcia start

Hopefully you'll hear two high beeps. If so, the card has been recognized.

Good luck!
-Paul

> Hallo,

> I'm searchign for Infos, how to get this adapter running with 100 Base T
in
> my TP 600. Your message was the the only one regarding this problem I
found
> until now. So I'm asking you for help.
> Because I'm really new with PCMCIA on linux, please send a little more
> detailed descritpion, if possible.
> Do you have this card running?
> What I'm to do to have it running?

Quote:> english version below

> Hallo allerseits,

> ich wrde gern diese Karte in meinem ThinkPad unter Linux nutzen, leider
> habe ich noch keinen richtigen Treiber bzw. richtige Konfiguration dafr
> gefunden. Vielleicht finde ich ja hier Hilfe.

> Danke Thomas

> Hallo,

> I'm trying to use the above mentioned adapter with my ThinkPad and Linux.
> Until now I did not find the proper information about which driver to use
> and how to configure this. I hope, I can find help here.

> Thanks Thomas

by **Stephen Te** » Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:00:00

>*) /etc/pcmcia/config
>card "IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus Adapter with 56K Modem"
> manfid 0xMMMM, 0xNNNN
> bind "tulip_cb" to 0

I found that with standard off-the-CD RedHat 6.1 (which comes with
pcmcia-cs-3.0.9, I think) adding these three lines to /etc/pcmcia/config
lets the adaptor work.

After editing /etc/pcmcia/config, issue these two commands
# /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
# /etc/init.d/pcmcia star

I did not run the card very long this way; since I needed to recompile the
kernel anyway, I did so after installing pcmcia-cs-3.1.3. But it did work
plenty well enough to download kernel, pcmcia and lots of other source from
the LAN.

Quote:>Unfortunately I can't supply the numbers for MMMM and NNNN any more. Type:
># /sbin/cardctl ident
>It'll give you those values.

My card is:

card "IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus"
manfid 0x00a4, 0x0113
bind "tulip_cb"

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