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kaboom

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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,20:31

I have a XIRCOM RBE-100 card that will not come on when I boot up. After cardmgr, I see an error about not finding tulip_cb. However, if I remove the card and re-insert it, it comes on, afterwhich I can run netcardconfig and use DHCP to obtain an IP address. This happens on the livecd and a hd-install. The laptop is a Toshiba Portege 7010.

Does anyone have any Ideas why that would happen?

gmandual

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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,03:59

Getting the specifics of the error would help. From your description there is a failure loading the:
xircom_tulip_cb.o
Module at boot. Which could be caused by a number of things. AFter booting up from DSL, go to a console prompt and:
dmesg > /ramdisk/output
Then go through and look through the output file. There should be all the events from bootup. FInd the content from the point where it says:
"Linux Kernel Card Services"
After that a way you should see messages about the module trying to load.

kaboom

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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,18:49

I think I've got it. After logging in I can run modprobe xircom_cb then run netcardconfig to get an IP address. I think I can handle it from here.

dexdex

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Posted: Feb. 08 2005,10:11

Did you solve the problem? I have the same with my pcmcia card. there is no erro message while booting up the sytem.

aveline

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Posted: Feb. 17 2005,08:40

I have also got a xircom which dsl finds just fine, seems to load the driver yet when it tries to get an IP addy from the router it fails. I used a mepis tool that sets up adsl/ppoe stuff, i guess it probed teh card & found it cuz it worked after that. The same thing is happening in mepis/dsl/hikarunix (dsl offshoot). In mepis the cards not detected on boot i think; in the dsl's its found but doesn't have any out/inbound traffic coming thru.

how do you do this modprobe thingy & if it works, how can i get that tto happen at boot up time on mepis/dsl?

aveline

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