OK, I've have a look into this. I got the latest pcmcia from sourceforge and plugged it in. It didn't help. A little more wandering around the web site and I found this in the BUGS file: --- o Xircom CBEM support in the tulip_cb driver seems to be extremely unreliable. A wide range of symptoms are reported, ranging from no packet reception, to correct operation at certain speed/duplex combinations but not others, to frequent missed interrupts. Also, some people have reported kernel faults when a Xircom card is shut down with "ifconfig down". Prognosis: there seem to be multiple revisions of the (apparently) not-quite-tulip-compatible chipset in the Xircom cards, and fixes that seem to help for some cards, break other cards. Until someone can try to characterize what the revision differences might be, this is not going to get fixed. Setting the card to promiscuous mode ("ifconfig eth0 promisc") seems to help in some cases. --- Which just about sums it up. I put an 'ifconfig eth0 promisc' (I didn't know you could do that!) in my /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and rebooted, and the problem has gone away. Or a least, it's been side stepped.
The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat.
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