Unfortunately if I boot with everything removed from the system then it is
just like me not having the card in normally. When I put it in the card
services daemon will pick it up right away. If I don't have card services
running then nothing works. :-P Thanks for the idea though.
- Matt Bradford
----- Original Message -----
From: "ABrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: Question about PCMCIA networking
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 01:34:48 -0400
> "Matthew Bradford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > One more thing:
> > I know the slot isn't bad because it was _just working_ with that
> > card
> > and I tried a modem in there and it worked fine. Also I know the card
> > is still good because it works fine in another laptop running
> > Windows98.
> >
> > - Matt Bradford
>
> You don't say, I'm not sure with a laptop, and this is a wild guess
> based on things that work with desktops (sometimes).
>
> Have you rebooted without the card, removed all references to it
> (/etc/modules.conf and networking) and rebooted with it installed? Being
> an NE2K clone might require some manual configuration once again. I
> don't use ISA boards any more, but I remember they required some
> additional parameters to get them working (IRQ, I think it was, or IO,
> but not both). I had a couple of NE2K clones that were ISA and needed
> those things to work.
>
> That's my best (and only) shot.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matthew Bradford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:31 AM
> > Subject: Question about PCMCIA networking
> >
> >
> > > I am totally stumped.
> > >
> > > Here is the issue: I am running an NEC Versa 5080/64mb RAM/3gb HD
> > > and I just put a fresh install of RH7.3 on it. Now here is where
> > > issues come in...
> > >
> > > I have a SMC8040TX network card which is supposed to be NE2000
> > > compliant. So it just automagically loads the pcnet_cs.o module.
> > > The first time I inserted the card it worked wonderfully. I got a
> > > DHCP address and I could get to the net and bring up any page I
> > > wanted to. Then I made the mistake of turning my laptop off. :-/
> > >
> > > Now when I boot up (changing no settings) the card is detected and
> > > the driver is loaded (known from hearing both beeps and doing an
> > > lsmod) but it will not transmit anything over the network. It is as
> > > if it can only
> > listen
> > > to the traffic on the rest of the network but not participate. I
> > > can do
> > an
> > > 'ifconfig eth0 up' and it shows up in my card listing and then do a
> > > 'tcpdump -i eth0' and it shows every single packet flowing through
> > > the network. If I try and hardwire an address to the card
> > > ('ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 up') then it shows the IP address but I
> > > cannot ping anything. This is very frustrating since it worked
> > > perfectly the first time.
> > >
> > > To sum up: fresh install of RH7.3 NIC works perfectly. Reboot and
> > > it becomes a silent partner on the network. Will not join in the
> > > chatter anymore... even when I uninstall PCMCIA support and put it
> > > back in.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > > - Matt Bradford
> > >
> > >
> > >
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