xircom cardbus card - weird problem

Forum: Laptops
Topic: xircom cardbus card - weird problem
started by: corpselaurel

Posted by corpselaurel on Mar. 08 2006,00:18

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?

Posted by aveline on Mar. 09 2006,01:01

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

Posted by corpselaurel on Mar. 09 2006,15:55

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

Posted by p/h tich on Mar. 09 2006,18:21

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

Posted by roberts on Mar. 09 2006,20:12

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

Posted by corpselaurel on Mar. 11 2006,21:01

Any suggestions on anything I could try?

Posted by roberts on Mar. 12 2006,00:18

OK. Try these. Maybe someone in the community will see something.

Post the results of:

sudo cardctl ident

dmesg | grep irq

Check to see if irq conflict

Posted by corpselaurel on Mar. 12 2006,03:48

sudo cardctl ident:

Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Xircom", "CardBus Ethernet II 10/100", :CBEII-10/100", "1.03"
manfid: 0x0105, 0x0103
function: 6 (network)

dmesg | grep irq:

PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Yenta ISA IRQ mask0x0c90, PCI irq 0
Yenta ISA IRQ mask0x0c90, PCI irq 0
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550a

Any help would be great, thanks.

Posted by roberts on Mar. 12 2006,07:05

The Yenta irq 0 looks like trouble to me.
You might try looking into bios regarding irq assignments or trying using a combination of these boot code for your particular hardware.

noapic pnpbios=off pci=bios acpi=off

Posted by roberts on Mar. 12 2006,21:33

Googling Tecra 8000 pcmcia results in particular this < post > which might apply

Posted by corpselaurel on Mar. 21 2006,19:17

Thank you very much!
I typed:
fb800x600 dsl noapic dsl pnpbios=off dsl pci=bios dsl acpi=off
and it works great!

Where are you located? You deserve a beer