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there's no file or directly that starts with an 'r' in /etc/
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em.
Thanks, that did the trick. Now the problem is that I'm having trouble finding
the right module for the network card. It's the Xircom CardBus Ethernet II
10/100 .
Again, this is on a Dell Inspiron 8000 and I'm pretty sure that this card is
pcmcia.
I've tried the ess...10
> And I believe that the CBE2-100BTX is what you're looking
> for; so give the tulip_cb driver a shot. (If the experimental thing
> bugs you, don't worry; I've been using an RBEM56G-100BTX for several
> months now on an Inspiron 4000 and it's considered experimental.)
How exactly would I load the
> Make sure that you have the pcmcia-cs package installed. The
> tuplip_cb driver is (I believe) a driver belonging to that package and
> not a kernel module. From my experience, as long as the pcmcia-cs
> package is installed, everything `just works'.
So in modconf I don't need anything under t
> Look in the syslog (/var/log/syslog) to see what `cardmgr` is
> telling the system. On my i4k, when I plug in the card, `cardmgr`
> beeps to let me know it recognizes the insertion. After a few
> seconds, it beeps again to let me know that it's done loading the
> modules and setting things up.
> From my (limited) knowledge of pcmcia and it's workings, it
> shouldn't matter what slot you put the card into.
OK, the Xircom card, tulip_cb, and everything else now shows
up and I get the beep, yet I still can't get a connection out of this
thing. Apt isn't working and pinging random sites isn
>If you don't see it here, then it didn't get compiled or
>included with the package, or your pcmcia_cs is too old. I
>don't know when tulip_cb first came out. I'm running 3.1.25
>and use this module for my RBEM56G-100BTX.
I have the latest version of pcmcia-cs for Debian. All th
> OK. So the card is being recognized and initialized. So is
> networking configured properly?
What do you mean by configured properly? Normally for this
Internet connection I would setup the network card, install
dhcpcd, and everything would work. I have pcmcia-cs configured
for DHCP so I'm ass
> What does /sbin/ifconfig tell you? You should be able to get the
> current configured netwrok interfaces from there. Is eth0 in there?
>From ifconfig I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:17:58:A8
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> No inet address. Between this and your /etc/resolv.conf being empty
> (so no DNS entries), I'd think that the problem lies with the DHCP
> side. It doesn't look like eth0 is getting the right configuration
> from the server. I'm snot too familiar with DHCP, though.
Any idea what pcmcia-cs is usi
>I use the same card and used to put it in promisc mode,
>however, I found this is not necessary. I dumped pump and now
>use dhclient-2.2.x. This client always gets an IP config, but
>sometimes I just need to remind it that it's up to get it
>forwarding:
>ifconfig eth0 up
> Check /etc/pcmcia/network and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. The logic seems
> a bit involved. For example, pump can be started if $PUMP is true; or
> $BOOTP is true, but there are no other bootp clients; or either $DHCP or
> $DHCLIENT is true and there are no other dhcp clients.
This is getting real
Hi,
Again, thank you everyone for your help so far with my problem. Here's what
I'm up to with this Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100 on a Dell Inspiron 8000:
Last night I tried resetting the modem and after fiddling with ifconfig, dhcpcd,
and pcmcia-cs, I got this thing working! But only for a fe
> Here's what happens when I boot in right now. When I boot in, ifconfig
> shows eth0 and lo, but no IP address in eth0. After running "dhcpcd eth0"
> ifconfig shows an IP!!! But when I run apt-get update, the thing fails (I
> probably waited too long) and when I ran ifconfig again, eth0 was gone
>
> The second beep might be your card, or the cardmgr daemon,
> shutting down. Try unplugging the card and plugging it back it. When
> I do that, I hear a beep on the unplug, a beep on the plug and a beep
> when it's all up. How's that for tech support! ;)
Will I have to do this all the time? F
> Hope not. I just want to know if it works when you unplug it
> and plug it back in. If it does, maybe that'll give you another place
> to look for the root of the problem.
I've run into a snag. Because of the dist-upgrade I did for the latest
stable version, it got rid of pcmcia-modules... and
> I've run into a snag. Because of the dist-upgrade I did for the latest
> stable version, it got rid of pcmcia-modules... and it's no longer
> recognizing my network card.
The pcmcia-modules thing isn't a problem any more. I got the card
working. And I got the connection working! After running
> The pcmcia-modules thing isn't a problem any more. I got the card
> working. And I got the connection working! After running
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart, I unplugged the connection cable from the
> card and then I plugged it back in and ran "dhcpcd eth0". That
> made the connection work. I was
Hi,
I have a quick question. If I want to upgrade to a 2.4.x kernel, what do I do
about the pcmcia-modules... package I need for my cable connection on this
laptop? There's no pcmcia-modules-2.4... They're all for 2.2.x kernels. Has
pcmcia-modules... been replaced by something else for 2.4.x kerne
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em.
Thanks, that did the trick. Now the problem is that I'm having trouble finding
the right module for the network card. It's the Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100 .
Again, this is on a Dell Inspiron 8000 and I'm pretty sure that this card is pcmcia.
I've tried the ess...1
> And I believe that the CBE2-100BTX is what you're looking
> for; so give the tulip_cb driver a shot. (If the experimental thing
> bugs you, don't worry; I've been using an RBEM56G-100BTX for several
> months now on an Inspiron 4000 and it's considered experimental.)
How exactly would I load th
> Make sure that you have the pcmcia-cs package installed. The
> tuplip_cb driver is (I believe) a driver belonging to that package and
> not a kernel module. From my experience, as long as the pcmcia-cs
> package is installed, everything `just works'.
So in modconf I don't need anything under
> Look in the syslog (/var/log/syslog) to see what `cardmgr` is
> telling the system. On my i4k, when I plug in the card, `cardmgr`
> beeps to let me know it recognizes the insertion. After a few
> seconds, it beeps again to let me know that it's done loading the
> modules and setting things up.
> From my (limited) knowledge of pcmcia and it's workings, it
> shouldn't matter what slot you put the card into.
OK, the Xircom card, tulip_cb, and everything else now shows
up and I get the beep, yet I still can't get a connection out of this
thing. Apt isn't working and pinging random sites is
>If you don't see it here, then it didn't get compiled or
>included with the package, or your pcmcia_cs is too old. I
>don't know when tulip_cb first came out. I'm running 3.1.25
>and use this module for my RBEM56G-100BTX.
I have the latest version of pcmcia-cs for Debian. All t
> OK. So the card is being recognized and initialized. So is
> networking configured properly?
What do you mean by configured properly? Normally for this
Internet connection I would setup the network card, install
dhcpcd, and everything would work. I have pcmcia-cs configured
for DHCP so I'm as
> What does /sbin/ifconfig tell you? You should be able to get the
> current configured netwrok interfaces from there. Is eth0 in there?
>From ifconfig I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:17:58:A8
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> No inet address. Between this and your /etc/resolv.conf being empty
> (so no DNS entries), I'd think that the problem lies with the DHCP
> side. It doesn't look like eth0 is getting the right configuration
> from the server. I'm snot too familiar with DHCP, though.
Any idea what pcmcia-cs is us
>I use the same card and used to put it in promisc mode,
>however, I found this is not necessary. I dumped pump and now
>use dhclient-2.2.x. This client always gets an IP config, but
>sometimes I just need to remind it that it's up to get it
>forwarding:
>ifconfig eth0 up
> Check /etc/pcmcia/network and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. The logic seems
> a bit involved. For example, pump can be started if $PUMP is true; or
> $BOOTP is true, but there are no other bootp clients; or either $DHCP or
> $DHCLIENT is true and there are no other dhcp clients.
This is getting rea
Hi,
Again, thank you everyone for your help so far with my problem. Here's what
I'm up to with this Xircom CardBus Ethernet II 10/100 on a Dell Inspiron 8000:
Last night I tried resetting the modem and after fiddling with ifconfig, dhcpcd,
and pcmcia-cs, I got this thing working! But only for a f
> Here's what happens when I boot in right now. When I boot in, ifconfig
> shows eth0 and lo, but no IP address in eth0. After running "dhcpcd eth0"
> ifconfig shows an IP!!! But when I run apt-get update, the thing fails (I
> probably waited too long) and when I ran ifconfig again, eth0 was gone
> The second beep might be your card, or the cardmgr daemon,
> shutting down. Try unplugging the card and plugging it back it. When
> I do that, I hear a beep on the unplug, a beep on the plug and a beep
> when it's all up. How's that for tech support! ;)
Will I have to do this all the time?
> Hope not. I just want to know if it works when you unplug it
> and plug it back in. If it does, maybe that'll give you another place
> to look for the root of the problem.
I've run into a snag. Because of the dist-upgrade I did for the latest
stable version, it got rid of pcmcia-modules... an
> I've run into a snag. Because of the dist-upgrade I did for the latest
> stable version, it got rid of pcmcia-modules... and it's no longer
> recognizing my network card.
The pcmcia-modules thing isn't a problem any more. I got the card
working. And I got the connection working! After running
> The pcmcia-modules thing isn't a problem any more. I got the card
> working. And I got the connection working! After running
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart, I unplugged the connection cable from the
> card and then I plugged it back in and ran "dhcpcd eth0". That
> made the connection work. I was
Hi,
I have a quick question. If I want to upgrade to a 2.4.x kernel, what do I do
about the pcmcia-modules... package I need for my cable connection on this
laptop? There's no pcmcia-modules-2.4... They're all for 2.2.x kernels. Has
pcmcia-modules... been replaced by something else for 2.4.x kern
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