Networking :: PCMCIA Ethernet configuration for old laptop



That's your pcmcia card slot, not the card :) and that is supported, since it recognized it's a cardbus card and gave it the right voltage.
The card is either "ethernet controller" or "communication controller".

For other cards, Xircom ones are really good.
From http://www.micronet.info/model_detail.aspx?series_no=21&sno=230 it seems that this uses rtl8139.  Though this old driver package seems to be for the 2.2.x kernel, I think that driver is already included in DSL and that package's docs might help you out. What's your output of `lsmod` ?
If it helps my results are:

dsl@box:~$ cardctl status
Socket 0:
 3.3V CardBus card
 function 0: [ready]
Socket 1:
 no card
dsl@box:~$ cardctl ident
Socket 0:
 product info: "D-Link", "DFE-690TXD", "PC Card"
 manfid: 0x0149, 0x0000
 function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
 no product info available

Works perfectly in my laptop Compaq armada 1770, PII, 266Mhz, 256RAM

In system stats, net, say:

FULLNAME="D-Link System Inc|DFE-690TXD CardBus PC Card"
DRIVER="8139too"
nameserver 87.216.1.65
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  
         inet addr:192.168.1.25  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:9 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:165316 (161.4 KiB)  TX bytes:25004 (24.4 KiB)
         Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000

in modules:

mousedev                3832   1
hid                    22788   0 (unused)
input                   3168   0 [mousedev hid]
8139too                13800   1
mii                     2240   0 [8139too]
crc32                   2816   0 [8139too]
ds                      6536   2
yenta_socket            9700   2
pcmcia_core            39840   0 [ds yenta_socket]

and finally in dmesg:

eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
curaga - ah, ok. bit slow today. Thanks for the info.

thehatsrule - lsmod gives a lot of info.. is there anything in particular you want me to look for? :)
anything with "8139" in the name.
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