Belkin F5D5020 trouble

Forum: Networking
Topic: Belkin F5D5020 trouble
started by: dbickin

Posted by dbickin on Mar. 11 2005,04:32

I am trying to get dsl to use a pcmcia Belkin F5D5020 network card on my Toshiba 1555CDS.

When booting, it says it recognizes the Belkin card, and then runs modprobe 8390 then modprobe pcnet-cs.

A few lines later there is an error message
ifup: ignoring unknown interface eth0

Then later still, there is a line saying that is recognizes eth0 and is broadcasting DHCP. At that point, the laptop hangs solid. I have to hit the power switch.

I can use nodhcp to get past that hang, but then the system says "Network is not reachable."

dmesg has a line saying
eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:30:BD:00:A8:98

Any ideas on what I should do next?

Thanks,
David

Posted by dbickin on April 10 2005,02:47

I still haven't gotten the card to work. Is anyone using this card?

Thanks,
David

Posted by ke4nt1 on April 10 2005,05:29

Do you have a dhcp server setup on your network?

Perhaps using 'nodhcp' at startup, then assigning an IP to it manually,
might help you troubleshoot the issue..

73
ke4nt

Posted by dbickin on April 21 2005,16:25

I am pretty sure there is a dhcp server built into my router. At any rate, all my other linux boxes have no trouble connecting. Ditto for my windows boxes, including the laptop with the Belkin card when booting with windows.

How do I "assign an IP to it manually"?

Do I use the address it gets assigned when booting under windows? Where do I then put this address?

Thanks,
David

Posted by dbickin on April 22 2005,03:30

follow-up. I booted windows, and ran ipconfig. That gave me Ethernet Adapter IP Address = 192.168.2.14 and Default Gateway = 192.168.2.1

I rebooted DSL saying NODHCP

I then selected the DSL Control Panel, then NetCardConfig.

Use DHCP Broadcast -- <NO>
IP Addr for eth0 -- <192.168.2.14>
Network mask -- <255.255.255.0>
Broadcast -- <192.168.2.255> No idea what this in so I left it alone
Gateway -- <192.168.2.1>
Nameservers -- <151.204.0.84> which I got from my router's configuration's DNS entry.

At this point, the terminal shows
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 up

After a second the only thing I can do it use the power switch.

Is there something else I should be looing at?

Thanks,
David

Posted by dbickin on April 26 2005,17:39

I still haven't made any progress. Is there a way to see if any error messages are being generated. When ifconfig runs, the system freezes solid.

Anyone have an idea what I should try next?

Thanks,
David

Posted by ke4nt1 on April 26 2005,18:00

IRQ3 is normally used by com2 , and may cause a conflict.
Is there a way to disable the comport in your bios temporarily?

Also, do you have another card to test this with,
so we're sure the pcmcia bus is working correctly with linux?

Is there a way to disable plug-n-play in your bios,

That's all that comes to mind at the moment..

73
ke4nt

Posted by dbickin on April 27 2005,04:41

Thanks, ke4nt. IRQ 3 was the culprit! The unused internal modem was sitting there. I moved it and all is well.

Now to figure out why grub thinks /dev/hda is not a block device.... but that's another issue entirely.

David