Hello all. I'm trying to get a Linksys PCMPC100 v3 card working under Redhat. I've installed the latest card services of 3.1.24 and I get the error "Sorry, the AX88190 chipset is not supported" in my log. Anyone successfully got this card working in Redhat or any other linux distro for that matter?

at linux-laptops.com , the list of supported cards says that the linksys 10/100 card is supported and works fine ! but not the v3 cards!
As luck would have it, that is the pc card that I have, and NO I have not gotten it to work, and I have had people that are much better with linux than myself, but not so good that they can write drivers.

I guess this didn't answer your question at all, but I figure that if more people know about it, then there will be a bigger crowd that someone can do something about it.

I have tried to get it running under Red Hat 6.1, Mandrake 7.0, and Red Hat 7.0

I hope someone out there has the answer. Or else I'll only be able to use it under windows.

Just replying to say I am having the same issue as well but
with the NETVIN 501 card.

This card has the chip AX88190 on it, and I am guessing that
the Linksys one has (though I have not verified that).

Anyway I am trying to get it to work with Mandrake 7.2 which
is using the kernel 2.2.17. I do get the same message about
the chip AX88190 not working. However I am convinced it will
work because the netvin card comes with a modified 8390.c and pcnet_cs.c files but unfortunately for the 2.0 kernel :-(

After making some changes to the drivers I am able to
ifconfig the card up. However I have the following issues:

- the mac address is not set correctly
- when forcing the mac address the card comes up
however when sending out a ping I get the messages:

Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 imr=0x0.
interrupt(s) dropped!

Anyway I am pressing on cos I want to get it to work rather
than spending more bucks and out of interest ......

Other comments:

- it looks like the NetBSD can handle the card from looking
at the code (rather it has the code handles to cope with
it)

- the bugs list on the sourceforge.net for the pcmcia driver
indicates that there are problems with this chip

Well if I get it to work I'll let you know, if anyone has
any comments please do.

Cheers

sweet icons

Any luck on that NV501? I've painstakingly shifted about 50MB by floppy (doh, I just realised I have an external zip drive!) to my laptop.

I managed to compile a 2.2.19 version of the driver using my 2.4.4 box (!), but I've got 2.2.19pre17 on the lappy.

Being playing arround with it though. Card shows up in cardctl fine. Might see about downgrading to debian/2.1, and installing the drivers we have.



:smash: (its a 486 - 15 times slower then my desktop, about 2 hours for a kernel compile)

Unfortunately not. I did manage to get the card
recognised in terms of getting it ifconfig'ed up
correctly and using the correct MAC address.
However as soon as I plugged it into a network
and tried to use it no go. Basically the issue
was that the interrupt register on the card was/is
not being cleared (this is a documented bug in
the chip's manual), and no amount of software
messing around on my side would clear it (however
I suspect this is due to my mistakes in the changes I made to the 8390.c code).

I do mean to get back to it but I did just buy
another card (which works).

The new card I bought was:

DFE-680TX D-Link from www.dabs.com

This works nicely (happens to be one of the supported cards).

I am running Mandrake 7.2 on an HP n3350 laptop

The only changes I had to make to get this card
to work was to /etc/pcmcia/config and add some
lines (which I do not have with me!) to make the
card a recognised one (using the manfid which
will appear in /var/log/syslog when the card is
first inserted) and then bind to the tulip driver.
Oh and you have to restart the cardctl process.