Laptops :: xircom cardbus card - weird problem

I have dsl2.2-syslinux running on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a Xircom 32-bit CardBus Ethernet II 10/100 card.

It seems that it is detected fine on boot up but when I go to the netcard setup, after I enter all of my network info, I get a

'SIOCSIFLAGS: resource temporarily unavailable' message.

if i do IFCONFIG ETH0 everything looks okay except when I type IFCONFIG ETH0 UP i get the same 'SIOCSIFLAGS: resource temporarily unavailable' message.

Any ideas?

I have a xircom realport 10/100 +56K modem builtin and after fighting with it for a year (in the day you paid $400 for one of these things) came to the conclusion after numerous posts and web searchings, that it is not linux compatible. You may need a diff card. I bought a $50 linksys pcmcia card and it worked fine out of the box with every distro I throw at it.

Avey

I have used this card successfully in linux before with another distribution.

yo, i have a Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT running dsl 2.2, and i stuck a xircom card in the PCMCIA slot, this card does have modem and mini usb as well as the standard Ethernet, it find it fine at boot up and i've not tried the configuration yet, but i sure hope i don't have the same problems as you guys

My pcmcia Xircom RealPort2 10/100 RE2-100 works fine.

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