Rachel Collins wrote:
>Do you know of any way to set the negotiation manually so that it forces it
>to start at 10 or 100, or at full or half duplex? The computer is dual
>booting to Win2k so I know the card is functional, and I can't find any
>utilities on the driver disk that appear useful.
Sorry, that's something I've never confronted before - no idea how to do it.
>Yes, I have that file and 'NETWORKING=yes'. I also tried setting my IP
>manually (to a generic 192.168.0.50) and it behaves like it's starting ok
>now, but my lights are still flashing and I, of course, still can't access
>anything outside of my pc (although I can ping my pc). It also still says
>'trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy' and 'found link beat' and
>'lost link beat' whenever I try to ping something.
This really reminds me of problems I had when I first tried setting up token
ring cards for one of the schools in the district. I would get transmitter
busy and other similar sounding messages plus a token card will flash it's
lights until it inserts into the ring. My problems there were with
conflicting shared memory area's between the token and ethernet cards in the
router I was building. I know you've dealt to some degree with the IRQ
assignment. Have you seen anything in /var/log/messages that might be a
complaint about ioports, shared memory, or specific irq's? I think Luke
suggested to check /proc/???/interupts (can't remember exactly where it is
:-) to see what is in use. What did it say about irq 10?
>I tried changing S45pcmcia to S09pcmcia so that it would start first - it
>made it think a lot harder about initializing the card, and it now
>consistently says 'lost link beat' right after 'found link beat', but no
>other changes. What does 'found/lost link beat' mean? What does
>'trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy' mean?
I don't know exactly what this means. As I mentioned above, I got
transmitter busy messages (among others) with a shared memory conflict with
another card. As to whether it could indicate or refer to other problems -
I don't know, but I'd guess that it could.
>Is there another card you'd recommend I buy? ;)
Not me personally - I don't have a laptop to use a PCMCIA card in. There
was another post I saw down a little way that had a recommendation though.
>Chad wrote:
>>I have a Xircom CEM56-100 that works great, (Translated: it works for me
and
>>I've had no problems with it)
Have you looked through any of the hardware databases to see how your pcmcia
card (or the laptop) is rated with Linux? Have you looked to see if there
is anything helpful in the PCMCIA Howto? There are a couple of links there
to other potential resources and you might run across another list somewhere
that deals specifically with pcmcia hardware for Linux.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
That's about all I can think to suggest to you. Sorry I couldn't be of more
help but I'm out of ideas :-(.
Mike Rambo
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