Hi everyone.

I'm having troubles with my pcmcia card and despite my searches, i have no clue of what is going on.

I'm running Suse 9.1 right now but i had the same problem with RH9 earlier.

The card seems to be recognized (i got the 2 "beeps" at boot time), the service pcmcia is running, etc... Some informations are listed below.

The point is : i cannot figure out how to get eth0 up, even though i tried with yast to configure it.

It is a Texas Instrument PC1410 PC Cardbus, with 1 LAN and 1 modem connector.

If i try : sh -x /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0

and a 'ifconfig -a' the eth0 is still not here...

Any help would be nice. Please tell me if any more information is required.

thanks for your attention.

cheers
flo

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linux:/home/flo # lspci -v

0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device b103
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

linux:/home/flo # cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 0.0V Vpp2 0.0V
interface type is "memory and I/O"
irq 10 [exclusive] [level]
speaker output is enabled
function 0:
config base 0x0420
option 0x45 status 0x08 pin 0x00 ext 0x00
io 0x03f8-0x03ff [8bit]


linux:/home/flo # cardctl info
PRODID_1="COM1 SA"
PRODID_2="MC223 CARD"
PRODID_3="NOKIA 6110"
PRODID_4="4T129000000UXX"
MANFID=ffff,0601
FUNCID=2

linux:/etc/pcmcia # cardctl status
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]

linux:/etc/pcmcia # cat /var/lib/pcmcia/stab
Socket 0: Serial or Modem
0 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS0 4 64

For my SMC 2835W card, I needed to copy the firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. As soon as I copied the firmware file to that directory, my wireless card came up and immediately connected. If your card uses the prism chipset, check out www.prism54.org.

firmware.... I'm going to dig a bit in this way, when time permits it.

thanks for the hint, see you for feedback.

try as root
killall cardmgr
remove the pcmcia card
cardmgr
insert de pcmcia card again
and check CTRL-ALT-F10 or /var/log/messages to check errors, if nothing GOOD
what tell ifconfig
if nothing try
ifdown eth0
ifup eth0
Rgds
Cxy

hi guys !

i'm trying what you told me coreyv, but when i remove and put back the card

it says : carmgr : open_sock(socket 0) failed : Device or resource busy

ifconfig tells :

lo [...]

sit0 IPv6-in-IPv4
NoARP

and

ifdown says that it's trying to free nonexistent resource

ifup says there's no configuration found for eth0

i remember something about networks.opts in /etc/pcmcia, but i can't remember what to do to configure eth0.

Any idea ?

thx a lot