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Title: [SOLVED] Linksys NP100 PCMCIA Card and DSL Post by: cortman on April 05, 2013, 12:40:19 AM Hi all,
I'm running DSL on a Toshiba 460CDT (full specs here- http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/satellitepro460cdt/product.shtm (http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/satellitepro460cdt/product.shtm)). I have a Linksys NP100 PCMCIA ethernet adapter that I'm trying to get working. If I plug the card in, I get the following in dmesg: Code: <6>eth0: Asix AX88190: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:04:5A:A5:66:08 Which means it's definitely being recognized, and even recognized as a network device, which had me pretty excited, as I've had no luck trying to get any networking working on this old beast. Unfortunately ifconfig only displays lo. I googled and found this thread in the old forums- http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-7/t-17873/st-5.html (http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-7/t-17873/st-5.html), and per instructions given there, I loaded the pcnet_cs driver with modprobe. It loaded fine, but ifconfig still returns just "lo". I'm really interested in getting this going. Thanks in advance. Title: Re: Linksys NP100 PCMCIA Card and DSL Post by: cortman on April 05, 2013, 03:16:49 PM From browsing the limited resources on this card online, I've tried a few things.
First, I edited /etc/pcmcia/config to bind the "axnet_cs" driver to the adapter, rather than the original "pcnet_cs" driver. One user of Debian Sarge said this fixed the problem for him. Next, I edited /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and added this to the end of the file: Code: card "Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card" version "Network Everywhere", "Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card", "3.0", "AX88190" manfid 0x0149, 0xc1ab bind "axnet_cs" I then blacklisted the pcnet_cs driver, and that is working. From the output at startup, the axnet_cs module is being loaded. The system also recognizes the card as a networking card and begins to try to set it up with ifup, and then suddenly stops and returns a message that it is ignoring. I've managed to roughly copy down the output: Code: pcmcia found starting cardmgr starting version is 3.2.2 socket 0 fast ethernet 10/100 executing modprobe 'axnet_cs' Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.dep exectuing ./network start eth0 debian network setup setup /sbin/ifup eth0 ifup ignoring unknown interface eth0 Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP (Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.dep) Autoconfiguring devices.... (Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.dep) (Backgrounding) Running dsl-4.4.10 What should I be trying next? Title: Re: Linksys NP100 PCMCIA Card and DSL Post by: cortman on April 05, 2013, 06:12:59 PM Solved with some help from CookieJar in #dsl. All that was required was running
Code: sudo ifconfig eth0 desiredip netmask 255.255.255.0 It's working great now.
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