Robert, I was attempting to use this same card a year ago on SuSE 5.3, with no luck. I had exactly the same conditions you mention. The pcmcia driver would activate and then find the card. Everything should work but the activity light remained silent. I couldn't ping out, and it would not respond to pings pointed at it. I evetually found out that Jeff Edwards <jwest9+@pitt.edu> had gotten the card specifications from Xircom and was working on a driver at that time, circa February 1999. However my attempts at contacting him or the his page at http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/xircom.html which is now long gone, were all futile. It came down to the fact that Xircom does not wish to release it's proprietary architecture to the Open Source community and that makes Linux driver development for their cards difficult. After spending many weeks of frustration on this I eventually tossed the Xircom CE3B-100BTX card in the trash can. My suggestion to you is also toss that Xircom piece of sh** in the trash and to order yourself a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 pcmcia card. Not only are they fully supported by the tulip driver, LinkSys has a Linux friendly support staff. John
I'm using the Xircom Cardbus Ethernet CBE-10/100TX card with the tulip module tulip_cb. Everything seems to load Ok, but nothing from the network. I'm using everything that came default with suse 6.1 jst a different module than the xircom module because it did not work. I read somewhere on a how to to try the tulip module for cardbus cards
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Pep Serrano wrote:
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Hello again,
Let's see what's going on with your card. Is it a RealPort card??? Which Id gives the card when you boot the PCMCIA package?
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:05:53 -0500 (EST), Robert Lyons wrote:
OK I got my Xircom pcmcia ethernet adapter working ( I had to use the tulip module ), but after placing all of the correct numbers into the network.opts file I still get the message that the network is not reachable. I also have no green lights on the adapter. I thought it may have been bad hardware, but the card works with no problems under $doze. Any help would be great...And thanks so much for the help so far.
So, what says you lsmod? Is tulip module working? Are you using the RPM distribution that comes with SuSE? You need to get the sources and compile them with support to cardbus. Is that right? Are you using Toshiba TECRA8000? Which option you sed in the BIOS configuration for the PCMCIA ports? See you, Pep Serrano pep@serrano.net http://pep.serrano.net
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