Very Computer

Hello,

Afer reading some of the docs on sourceforge, they say at the bottom
of the file that a few adapters are NOT supported.  The IBM EtherJet
is in there, but it does not state whether this is the 10BTor the
CardBus model.  I'm wondering if any of you have seen this readme and
can clarify if this is in fact the cardbus model.

I have gone through and configured my ThinkPad T21 (2647-27u) per the
PCMCIA How To, installed all the make commands, and everything checks,
even in the "debug-tools" directory, the card shows up.  But when I
boot, eth0 fails to start and says it's waiting.

I checked all of my files:
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts

and all seems to be fine according to the FAQs and HowTo's.

I'll try and get the contents of those files in a post if I can figure
out how to get them off the drive (it's on the same laptop I'm using,
a dual boot with Win2kPro and RedHat Linux 7.1).

I was just wondering if anyone has seen this and may have run across
it before.  

Thanks,
Mike

Nevermind.  I just found an entry in there that explicitly states that
the IBM EtherJet 10/100 cardbus adapter is not recommended and
unreliable.  Anyone ever get it to work?  

I'm going to try another adapter otherwise.

Thanks,
Mike

Quote:> Nevermind.  I just found an entry in there that explicitly states that
> the IBM EtherJet 10/100 cardbus adapter is not recommended and
> unreliable.  Anyone ever get it to work?

It is actually a relabled Xircom card with a modified identification string.
(at least the one I have here). It loads with the tulip_cb driver.

It works perfectly in RedHat 7.1, but not in Mandrake 8.0 (it loads..but
doesn't receive network packets). To get it to work in mandrake 8.0 you have
to put the adaptor in promisculous mode ("man ifconfig"). I think RH7.1 does
this already...because the received packet-count goes waaay up... (but it
does work reliably)
And all by default setup (automatic connection)...Take notice however that
RedHat always display eth0 "FAILED" at the bootup with PCMCIA adapters
(that's because PCMCIA loads after the network services)...but it should
load and start the network automatically after the start of the PCMCIA
services. (after this even a network restart should return "ok".)

However I don't rule out the possibility that there are maybe many more
versions of this adapter.

Grtz

Thanks.  I'll try that.
What is the command to start the network?  I remember in RedHat 6.2 it
was ndc restart, but that doesn't work in RH 7.1

I'll post back what I come up with.

Thanks,
Mike

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:22:15 GMT, "Alain Wenmaekers"

Quote:> Thanks.  I'll try that.
> What is the command to start the network?  I remember in RedHat 6.2 it
> was ndc restart, but that doesn't work in RH 7.1

I thought it was "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" (even since RedHat 5.1
when I started using linux)

(newer version do use /etc/init.d as directory.... but the old one is still
linked)

Grtz

I have since tried a 3Com 3ccfe374bt which loads fine, but still
doesn't work.  What I found out with this particular card is when I
boot into Win2K on the same laptop, the card only works under 10BT; it
will not work under 100BT.  Maybe that's my problem with the other
card?  Dunno.  Still working on it.

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:37:52 GMT, "Alain Wenmaekers"