by Hi out there,
I encounter problems configuring an ethernet pc-card on my laptop from
Gericom (recently bought at LIDL, a german supermarket). The type
seems to be simular to the Commander-series from Gericom.
On the notebook I installed Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17pre6 and
pcmcia-cs version 3.1.22. The card is a LevelOne FPC-0103TX with
10/100 Mps. It's not in the list of supported pc-cards though there
are two other cards from the same vendor in that list. lspci reports
an unknown ABOCOM-ethernet-adapter. After patching the
/etc/pcmcia/config with a corresponding entry I got cardmanager to
recognize the card and starting up the tulip_cb driver. I get two high
beeps inserting the card, no error messages in the logfiles (see
attached syslog and ifconfig copies at the end of my helpscream).
Pinging the corresponding IP-address from within the notebook is
answered by the card. But there is no way to reach another computer on
the net although I see the LEDs flickering with every ping sent into
the net. Also pings from the net to the laptop are not answered but
there must be a (mystic) connection sometimes because scanning the
daemon.log I found erratic entrys for a connect with another machine
in the net.
So - is there anything wrong with the card/driver settings? And if -
how to correct this. The card itself is OK (at least its working fine
with w2k) and the network configuration is simular to another
linux-box on the net that's working without any probs.
Below You find the extracted entries from syslog and the output from
ifconfig - hope that helps.
Many thanks in advance (and have mercy if I made a stupid mistake -
please help nevertheless..:-))
Jochen
SYSLOG:
Nov 26 08:41:16 shuttle kernel: tulip_detach(eth0)
Nov 26 08:41:16 shuttle kernel: cs: cb_disable(bus 35)
Nov 26 08:41:16 shuttle kernel: cs: cb_release(bus 35)
Nov 26 08:41:16 shuttle kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 35)
Nov 26 08:41:17 shuttle cardmgr[152]: shutting down socket 1
Nov 26 08:41:17 shuttle cardmgr[152]: executing: './network stop eth0'
Nov 26 08:41:17 shuttle cardmgr[152]: executing: 'modprobe -r
tulip_cb'
Nov 26 08:41:17 shuttle cardmgr[152]: executing: 'modprobe -r
cb_enabler'
Nov 26 08:41:22 shuttle kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 35): vendor 0x13d1,
device 0xab02
Nov 26 08:41:22 shuttle cardmgr[152]: initializing socket 1
Nov 26 08:41:22 shuttle cardmgr[152]: socket 1: Level One FPC-0103TX
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle cardmgr[152]: executing: 'modprobe cb_enabler'
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle cardmgr[152]: executing: 'modprobe tulip_cb'
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: cs: cb_config(bus 35)
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: fn 0 bar 1: io 0x800-0x8ff
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: fn 0 bar 2: mem
0x60060000-0x600603ff
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: fn 0 rom: mem 0x60040000-0x6005ffff
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: irq 10
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: cs: cb_enable(bus 35)
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21):
0x800-0x8ff
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1):
0x60040000-0x60060fff
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: tulip_attach(device 23:00.0)
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99
for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 17 at
0x800, EEPROM not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 10.
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000
status 7849 advertising 01e1.
Nov 26 08:41:23 shuttle cardmgr[152]: executing: './network start
eth0'
IFCONFIG:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:4C:69:6E:75:79
inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0