Ah, the joys of buying a /new/ NIC... Ok, so that's the cheesy solution, but it's cheaper than tossing the laptop off the Sears Tower. :) Thank you Jeff, Mike, L.G., Cokey, and Eric. I really appreciate the effort - I learned a whole lot. # -----Original Message----- # From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] # Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 6:54 AM # To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Re: Still having a NIC problem # # # Rachel Collins wrote: # >Do you know of any way to set the negotiation manually so # that it forces it # >to start at 10 or 100, or at full or half duplex? The # computer is dual # >booting to Win2k so I know the card is functional, and I # can't find any # >utilities on the driver disk that appear useful. # # Sorry, that's something I've never confronted before - no # idea how to do it. # # >Yes, I have that file and 'NETWORKING=yes'. I also tried # setting my IP # >manually (to a generic 192.168.0.50) and it behaves like # it's starting ok # >now, but my lights are still flashing and I, of course, # still can't access # >anything outside of my pc (although I can ping my pc). It # also still says # >'trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy' and 'found # link beat' and # >'lost link beat' whenever I try to ping something. # # This really reminds me of problems I had when I first tried # setting up token # ring cards for one of the schools in the district. I would # get transmitter # busy and other similar sounding messages plus a token card # will flash it's # lights until it inserts into the ring. My problems there were with # conflicting shared memory area's between the token and # ethernet cards in the # router I was building. I know you've dealt to some degree # with the IRQ # assignment. Have you seen anything in /var/log/messages that # might be a # complaint about ioports, shared memory, or specific irq's? I # think Luke # suggested to check /proc/???/interupts (can't remember # exactly where it is # :-) to see what is in use. What did it say about irq 10? # # >I tried changing S45pcmcia to S09pcmcia so that it would # start first - it # >made it think a lot harder about initializing the card, and it now # >consistently says 'lost link beat' right after 'found link # beat', but no # >other changes. What does 'found/lost link beat' mean? What does # >'trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy' mean? # # I don't know exactly what this means. As I mentioned above, I got # transmitter busy messages (among others) with a shared memory # conflict with # another card. As to whether it could indicate or refer to # other problems - # I don't know, but I'd guess that it could. # # >Is there another card you'd recommend I buy? ;) # # Not me personally - I don't have a laptop to use a PCMCIA # card in. There # was another post I saw down a little way that had a # recommendation though. # # >Chad wrote: # >>I have a Xircom CEM56-100 that works great, (Translated: it # works for me # and # >>I've had no problems with it) # # Have you looked through any of the hardware databases to see # how your pcmcia # card (or the laptop) is rated with Linux? Have you looked to # see if there # is anything helpful in the PCMCIA Howto? There are a couple # of links there # to other potential resources and you might run across another # list somewhere # that deals specifically with pcmcia hardware for Linux. # # http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html # # That's about all I can think to suggest to you. Sorry I # couldn't be of more # help but I'm out of ideas :-(. # # Mike Rambo # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # # _______________________________________________ # Redhat-list mailing list # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list # _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
