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lamikr_mdk wrote:
> Has anybody problems with the PCMCIA network cards with the Mandrake
> cooker? Just tested with HP Omnibook 4150 with Xircom CE3 10/100 Fast
> Ethernet card. (Couple of year old 400 mhz model) and it appears that I
> need to set the ip address manually every time.
>
> During the booting
>   1) I will see messages repeated which will claim that there may be
>   a IRQ conflict.
>   2) There appears text that cardmanager have loaded the driver
>   succesfully
>   3) When I log in, the ip address is not set.

Is the interface up or down though (does ifconfig list eth0)?

> I will always need to
>   set it manually by using "ifconfig eth0 xxx netmask xxx" and
>   "route add default gw xxx"
>
> If I run drakconf it will recognice my card
>   Vendor: Xircom CE3-10/100 Fast Ethernet
>   Module: xirc2ps_cs
>
> If I check dmesg there is following text repeated multible times.
>
>     Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
>     options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
>     ds: no socket driver loaded
>     unloading kernel card services
>     inux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
>     options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
>     ds: no socket driver loaded
>     unloading kernel card services
>     ...
>
>     PCI: found irq 10 for device 00:04.0
>     PCI: Sharing irq 10 with 01:00.0
>     ..
>     ..
>     eth0: Xircom port 0x300, irq 3, hwadddr xxx...
>     eth0: autonegotiation failed, using 10 mbs
>     eth0: MII selected
>     eth0_ Media 10BaseT, silicon revision 4

Maybe you have selected "Network hotplugging" in drakconnect? AFAIK,
there are very few PCMCIA cards that support ifplugd/ifstatus (at least,
before 2.4.23pre2).

Regards,
Buchan

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