I got a Xircom 10/100 Lan + 56K Modem CardBus card on a Toshiba TECRA 8000 laptop and I have no way to set up the ethernet interface. Modem works fine, and my other SCSI PCMCIA card works great! This means PCMCIA configuration is fine. I have checked a lot of times mem addr and IRQs conflicts.
But that is so simple whenever I do a "ifconfig eth0 up" the laptop locks. Also if I use yast and yast2 to set up the network I got the same problem when it tries to initilize the ethernet interface (suseconfig runs after configuration and the laptop hangs up).
Time ago I used redhat on this machine with the same hardware, and it worked from the first day! SuSE support team don't help you with PCMCIA because they argue it is advanced configuration they don't support. The fact is that it is very basic network configuration, and without it my laptop is useless.
I found out at source forge web that I am not the only one with this problem (at least we are two). So, nobody has approached it with success??? Is that simple that PCMCIA in SuSE doesn't work for some hardware it does on redhat, and there is no support at all for it?
I have already post this question before on the list. The fact is that I am very desperate, and a bit pissed of with SuSE.
Thanks.
Pep Serrano