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xircom ethernet card works one way only

i have a toshiba portege 3020ct laptop with redhat 6.0 and a xircom creditcard ethernet 10/100 card. the card is recognised at boot time the light on the connector goes on, but the light on the hubside does NOT go on. when i ping i can see the connector light flash but still nothing on the hubsite. how can this be fixed?

when i dualboot into micros*ft all works fine...

svindler

If you have the flat one with an external RJ45 "dongle" it should work.
The adapter with integrated RJ45 that fills two pcmcia slots almost works. Your description sounds like you have the fat one. I, and some of my colleagues, have lost a lot of working hours trying to get this to work, and still haven't figured it out.

hvrietsc

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it is the flat one with external dongle, now what?

svindler

Can you please provide the output of ifconfig and lsmod?
Do you have a static ip address or do you use dhcp?

hvrietsc

ASKER

everything works with same hw config if i run windows...
irq15 for xircom creditcard ehthernet adapter 10/100
ioports: 0110h-011fh
uppermem:
000cc000h-000ccfffh -xricom
000cd000h-000cdfffh -xircom

on linux redhat 6.0:
static ip addres
lights on dongle side flicker when i do a ping
light on hub site is not even on!

ifconfig shows:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C7:E2:9C:94
inet addr:172.22.1.218 Bcast:172.22.1.223 Mask:255.255.255.248
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

lsmod shows:
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
msdos 8220 2 (autoclean)
fat 25664 2 (autoclean) [msdos]
nfsd 150936 8 (autoclean)
lockd 30856 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 52356 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
xirc2ps_cs 11044 1
ds 5740 2 [xirc2ps_cs]
i82365 21956 2
pcmcia_core 39720 0 [xirc2ps_cs ds i82365]
opl3 11208 0
opl3sa2 3720 0
ad1848 15920 0 [opl3sa2]
mpu401 18416 0 [opl3sa2]
sound 57208 0 [opl3 opl3sa2 ad1848 mpu401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2372 7 [sound]

cat /proc/ioports shows:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0300-030f : xirc2ps_cs
0330-0331 : mpu401
0370-0371 : OPL3-SAx
0388-038b : Yamaha OPL3
03c0-03df : vga+
03e0-03e1 : i82365
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0530-0533 : WSS config

cat /proc/interupts shows:
CPU0
0: 19281 XT-PIC timer
1: 432 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 4 XT-PIC xirc2ps_cs
5: 1 XT-PIC MS Sound System
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
12: 9 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 44822 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4 XT-PIC i82365
NMI: 0

during boot is says:
etho install delayed [failed]

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