Having problems getting linux to run with my network card. It detects it, and cardctl gives me all the correct information, but when I type ifconfig, it just gives me the loopback address, and eth0 is nowhere to be found. The lights are on, but nobody is home.

The error I get is:

"Unable to read hardware net address for io base 0x300"

output from cardctl info:

PRODID_1="ASANTE"
PRODID_2="FriendlyNet PC Card"
PRODID_3="61-10090-00"
PRODID_4="R100"
MANFID=0123,0000
FUNCID=6

I am running Slackware 10 on a toshiba libretto 110ct. I've been through a man pages and pages of google searches, but nothing covered this quite right. Any help will be rewarded with incredible amounts of love.

- Phil

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

The fact that cardctl can read the info doesn't
necessarily mean that it loads a driver for it as
well ... this only testifies that the manufacturer
stuck to the PCMCIA specs.


I don't know which pcmcia ethernet driver that
card would be using (never came across it), have
a http://www.google.com/linux


Cheers,
Tink