trying to get a netgear FA511 to work under Slackware.

>cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info "N"

Card worked under mandrake in the same machine.

Where do I look next?


New to slackware but not linux, though i never had to get into detailed network configuration before -- everything always worked. Maybe I've been lucky?

What mandrake version was that? Do you remember seeing what module was loaded for the card?

it was mandrake 9.0
i believe the module was tulip_cb
running dmesg on this setup i get a line about tulip_cb being loaded

So, tulip is loaded, does ifconfig -a show a device?

yes it shows a device with a mac address
when i try to bring it up with a manual ip address i get the message:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

Is this a toshiba notebook? if so, go into bios setup screen and check the settings for the pcic, I think it is, it should not be set to auto.

I write this from that Toshiba laptop. Thank you very much!!!

I wonder why it worked under Mandrake?

Would someone mind telling me what I am supposed to do to get my FA511 working with Slackware 9.1 on an IBM 770ED. I downloaded the latest pcmcia-cs-3.2.5 tarball thingee and unpacked it and ran ./Configure. But what do I do next?

cross,
I take it then, that the bios setting fixed the problem? If so, I would love to know why it worked w/mandrake and not slack also. If you ever find out, post here somewhere.

Mr. Spaceman,
you really should not need to download/compile/install a new pcmcia subsystem for slack 9.1, what caused you to do this?

Confusion I guess

PCMCIA was installed, but my FA511 card isn't being seen. I think it requires the tulip_cb driver, but where do I find this and how do I install it?

The pcmcia sub-system is not to blame, please abandon your efforts to "upgrade" it, as Slack 9.1 contains I'm sure the latest version.

As you may have read in this very post, the tulip driver is required, however, we don't know at this point what's going on. Please, settle down, login as root and open a terminal (console) window, then type these commands and post the output back here:
cardctl ident
lsmod

we'll get this working, stay with me.

cardctl ident gives me:

lsmod gives me:

Hope that helps.

Ok, if you could please stop regurgitating my posts back to me in every one of yours I'd appreciate it. if I need to re-read something I've already posted, I'll just scroll up, the "quote" business needlessly makes this page longer and longer...

Back to business: If that is truly the output of your lsmod, then you are missing quite a few modules and lack of pcmcia support is just the beginning, tell me did the install of slack 9.1 complete without error? Did you do a "custom" installation of some sort? I ask this because you don't have any modules loaded that would support pcmcia.

I did a regular install from the two Slackware 9.1 CDs I downloaded from the net, and then I customized my kernel a little by adding in PCMCIA support and setting my CPU architecture.

So, if (as root at a console) you run "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia", what then does lsmod show?