Paul Talacko wrote:
Looks like you have another flavour of the problem. Try
running tcpdump on each machine when you do a ping. This
should tell you if the data is coming out or going back, or
what.
I've done that and there is some activity there - I just can't interpret
the data. Hear is the output from the tcpdump (sorry to those who don't
hate large lists of data). I've actually downgraded pcmcia-cs to 3.1.19
because according to a message on pcmcia.sourceforge.net the
implementation of drivers is different in this than in 3.1.21 and one
works on some configurations and one on the other. Also, something new has
happened: on the machine with the Xircom card the keyboard has just
frozen. I remember that this is a known bug. Question is, how to fix it.
Odd. I've never seen it happen like that before. It seems
the arp requests are going out of the Xircom, being received
and responded to by the other end, but then the arp replies
are being stored up somewhere - probably in the Xircom card
or it's driver - before being released back to the Xircom
host all in one great flood. The Xircom host isn't able to
understand those arp responses and never tries to issue the
ICMP echo response request.
The only thing I can suggest is that the IRQ from the Xircom
isn't working correctly, but that appears to be an avenue
you've explored.
I'm afraid I'm beaten. Perhaps someone on one of the PCMCIA
lists can help you?
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