A friend has a laptop with a Compex 10Mb LinkPort pcmcia Ethernet card. The card is detected and the pcnet-cs driver is auto-loaded by the kernel. The card corresponds to eth0, which I'm able to up. However, once I up the eth0 interface, I am neither able to receive or send out any packets from the interface. "ifconfig eth0" reveals that TX and RX are zero bytes, but the number of frames keeps on increasing. There is no firewall enabled on the box.
The card is detected as a NE2000 compatible card, and is assigned irq 9 and io 0x300. The laptop's running redhat 7.2 with pcmcia-cs 3.1.30, and a 2.4.16 kernel. And the pcmcia-cs docs do mention that this particular card is supported. Frankly, I'm stumped as to why the interface can be configured, but I'm unable to send or receive any packets on it. Can someone help? I really need to get this working to convince my friend that linux will work on his laptop.... the first experiment with a usb modem failed, and if this fails too, I'm not sure he'll want to continue with linux..... Regards, Vinu. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
