Mika
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)?
Yes, eth0 is listed. (as well as loopback) so the card is recognized.
Maybe there is a some kind of timing problem in the initscipts and ip-address is tried to set while there is still problem probing the card. During the boot I see messages from the IRQ conflict which ask me to check dmesg output. And from the dmesg output I can see that this error
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket driver loaded unloading kernel card services Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket driver loaded unloading kernel card services Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket driver loaded
and when the driver is finally loaded succesfully (this can again seen from the dmesgs output) it is too late to set the ip-address.
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).
I could not find a place where to define that in the drakconnect.
Mika
