Hi All, I'm trying to get my Xircom CardBus RealPort 10/100 Ethernet Adapter working with Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS notebook computer. I am trying to use pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-5mdk.i586.rpm, the default package for Mandrake 8.2.
However, after poking around in the BUGS file for the 3.1.34 release, I noticed this listed bug: o Xircom CardBus ethernet cards lock up some Toshiba laptops I now have a bunch of reports of this problem. While the Toshiba CardBus bridges are somewhat quirky, I haven't had a lot of reports of problems with the latest PCMCIA drivers, except for this issue. Now this obviously doesn't help me much at all! I have the PC Card setting in the BIOS set to CardBus/16bit, and have tried the other two settings, PCIC Compatible and Auto Selection, to no avail. cardmgr detects when I insert the PCMCIA card and begins to load the xirc2ps_cs then freezes. So, after playing with this for a while with no luck, I decided that I should try an earlier version, which perhaps was not plagued with this problem. I downloaded pcmcia-cs-3.1.21.tar.gz and after running an 'urpme pcmcia-cs' to get rid of the previous drivers, installed the new ones. Now, for starters, cardmgr is no longer loaded on boot, and I can't work out how to run it as a daemon whilst the system is up. I can however perform the following: modprobe yenta_socket modprobe ds modprobe xirc2ps_cs This seems to work, however, I don't know how to setup the eth0 interface post install to see if the card is working or not. Also, I might add that it works fine with Mandrake 8.1, which uses the kernel pcmcia-cs drivers. I would appreciate it if you could shed some light on the situation, and perhaps help me get my laptop up and running with access to my local network. Thanks in advance. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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