Networking :: PCMCIA Xircom Realport Cardbus 10/100+Modem56

The card I am using on an older panasonic toughbook laptop is a "Xircom Realport Cardbus 10/100+Modem56 " which works just dandy for all of um 5 minutes? The number on the card is RBEM56G-100. I've used this lil card w/Mepis just fine & XP is OK w/it too. But for some reason DSL 9.2 detects it & loads it fine on boot yet after say opening firefox & going to google, it just will not work. If I become root & try to use ping it fails; ditto doing an ifup/down it tells me the card isn't in existence. Netcardconfig fails too.

I go thru a linksys router which assigns IP's to my LAN thru DHCP &I'm fairly sure DHCP is enabled on DSL otherwise how would I get to google to begin with? Any ideas ??

Aveline

I had an issue this week with a Xircom RBE-100, which is the same ethernet controller as yours, minus the modem (I have the exact same card as you, but I haven't tried it yet). I had to modprobe xircom_cb then run netcardconfig to get it to work.

I thought it strange. The Xircom cards are the only ones I've had to do this with. If I boot in the docking station for my laptop , using its built-in Intel ethernet card, it works right on boot-up.

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As I said, on boot its detected & works fine if I go to google & type in a query. But as soon as I try to hit a link from google to go anywhere else or try to entere a new URL, it fails. Netcardconfig does too, the DHCP times out. I'm lost...

how do you do this modprobe thingy? And I'm running DSL off a cd atm, was planning to do a hdd install but if this issue cont's I'm pitching DSL away for the laptop.

aveline

hello

I have similar problem with my Xircom CE3B-100.
DSL detects it correctly but after network configuration,network doesn't work. I have no problem with network configuration,interface is UP but I have no connection. Most interested fact is this, that sometimes I have connection, it's strange, because I always do this same steps. I haven't DHCP.
Did you ever seen such problem?
Please,help mi.
Greetings
Mata

well I searched the Mepis forum & the only thing I found that some say works was this:

When I boot it tries to bring up eth0 (the d-link card) before loading PCMCIA services, so I think that causes a bit of a problem.
I put a shell script in the /etc/rc5.d directory which I called S98pumpx. This makes it run just before kde starts. The contents of the shell script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
pump -i eth0
This redoes the initialization of the nic as by this time pcmcia services have been started somewhere earlier in the various rc scripts. Not fancy or a proper fix, but it does work!

I tried to make this script but I don't know how to get it to execute on boot or how to make it work with mepis...would it work on DSL?

ideas?

EDIT: I ran Hikarunix *a DSL based distro that is based off of 0.8.x I believe for DSL*... the pcmcia card was detected & ran just fine for all of 5 minutes...then mysteriously it dies. Even the network window that sits on that little window thing in the lower right corner was showing net activity then suddenly stopped ... why? I run ifconfig it tells me there is no eth0 yet 5 mins ago it showed an entry for eth0 & a dhcp supplied addy from the router just fine.

Running dmesg gave me that Hikarunix uses the xircom_tulip.cb driver/module. I modprobed for it after trying to make it go "down" thru a term window & no error or anything came up. SO I tried to make it go Up again w/out success. *starts to wonder if I should make a new thread or someone should move this to the laptops forum?*. One last thing, the DHCP Client button is *not* depressed when I open the DSL panel on either DSL 9.2 or Hikarunix...yet obviously it worked b/c that is how the router sends out IP addys. WTF? If I try to use Netcardconfig it fails too everytime.

*sigh* Ideas?
aveline

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