PCMCIA Network Card problem

Forum: Laptops
Topic: PCMCIA Network Card problem
started by: Trenatos

Posted by Trenatos on Feb. 16 2007,16:35

Hey all.
I'm having trouble with my laptop, or to be exact, the PCMCIA Network card I have in it.
(DSL installed and runs perfectly btw. As far as I can see, this is the only problem I have.)
The Network card activates, and I can get information about it, however, I cannot get online, when I try to run the Network tools all I get is "No network card/adaptor" (Sorry, I know it's not what it literally says but I dont have my laptop here with me.)
Is this a known problem? (PCMCIA-Network cards not supported?) Is there any known solution or advice for me?

Posted by beakmyn on Feb. 16 2007,16:47

what do the commands
ifconfig
cardctl ident

give you?

Posted by Trenatos on Feb. 18 2007,17:43

Sorry for the time it took to get back to you.
When I run the command ifconfig I get:
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet adress: 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric 1
RX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collision: 0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 0 (0.0B) TX bytes 0 (0.0B)

And cardctl gives:
Product info: "CardBus", "10/100Mbps Ethernet Card", "", ""
manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c
function: 6 (network)
Socket1:
no product info available

Posted by beakmyn on Feb. 19 2007,17:30

Well there's the reason for "No network card/adaptor". ifconfig should have more then just the loopback lo. I would've expected to see eth0 there also.

So, cardctl gives us just some very basic information. Do you know what brand/model card your network card is? Then we can figure out what driver we need to load to get it to work.

Right now you've got a 30% of getting the card to work.
Worst case: you'll have to compile new kernel drivers for the
card
Best case: you'll need to lsmod <driver name>

Posted by Trenatos on Feb. 19 2007,18:53

The network card is a Zonet. ZEN1200. 10/100 Mbps

Posted by Trenatos on Feb. 22 2007,14:48

Is it possible to snatch the drivers from another dist and use with DSL?
The network card works with for example Knoppix.
If it is possible, how would I go about doing that?

Posted by beakmyn on Feb. 22 2007,15:32

If lspci shows the card as a Realtek you could try

sudo modprobe 8139too