Hello everyone,

I hope someone here can help me because I am really getting fed up and feel like kicking something.

I am trying to get my laptop running Red Hat 9 to correctly recognize my Xircom CE3-10/100 ethernet card.

According to plenty of posts and websites I have seen, there is a driver called "xirc2ps_cs". I have confirmed that I have the file on my laptop called "xirc2ps_cs.o" located in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia

The card also shows up in the Hardware Browser and the Network Settings.

/sbin/cardctl ident yields

Product info "Xircom","Credit Card 10/100", "CE3-10/100" "1.00"
manfid: 0x0105, 0x010a
function: 6 (network)

When I am booting up, I get a message saying bringing up eth0, then it says something to the extend of the device does not seem to be present. This I don't understand because I can see it other places on the system. (Where does it look at startup and not see it?)

When I try to activate it in the Network Settings, it always fails with an error about not being able to determine IP information.

modprobe and insmod don't help.

Where I am going wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Something to add:

I am not sure if it is the network card that is the problem. I just tried putting in a 3COM 3C589 Series card and configuring that in the Network Settings and rebooting. Upon reboot I get the same error about saying the device does not seem to be present.

Anyone have any ideas?

Just solved the "device does not seem to be present problem, still can't get an internet connection'

so everything is fixed?

No, I can't get an internet connection still. I have no clue what the problem is. No lights on the card blink. Occassionally the ethernet light on the modem will blink, but will never stay on solid.

I just feel like throwing my hands up in the air. Any suggestions, or does anyone know of a PCMCIA Card that will work?

So no PCMCIA NIC Cards work with Linux?

i have the same problem with do that plan.
i have xircom in my fedora core 4 and until now that not work on my fedora
#/sbin/cardctl ident
socket 0:
produk info:"xircom", "CreditCard 10/100", "CE3-10/100", "1.00"
manfid: 0x0105, 0x010a
function: 6 (network)
socket 1:
no product info available
and when:
#modprobe xirc2ps_cs
(nothing show up)thats means its work(i guees)
and when:
/sbin/modprobe xircom_cb
(nothing show up)that means its work (i guees)

so anyone can help me ,so i can connect to internet with my lovely xircom and fedora

Bump

Experiencing issues similar to those above RE: Xircom PCMCIA card with Ethernet and 56k Modem.