I presently have Win2K, WinXP(RC1) and Redhat 7.3 (skipjack) on this notebook. All work fine with the Xircom card. Mandrake 8.1 works fine also!
During DrakX install it works fine also! Only after a fresh install of 8.2 (or Cooker) does it continue to boot in half-duplex. Cheers On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 01:26, Mike Calloway wrote: > Nope. I have one as well. I also described it early in beta1 of Cooker 8.2. > Did you download SkipJack from RedHat's main site? > > > >From: "Rich Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [Cooker] Xircom Realport Cardbus (RBEM-56G) still broke > >Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:30:39 -0700 > > > >Oh, shock! You mean I'm not the only one with a Xircom Cardbus card? :-) > >Yes, I too have been spurned by the mandrake team. I have to manually > >install > >it on my laptop. > > > >On Wednesday 27 March 2002 12:02 pm, you wrote: > > > OK people . . . I tried many times during pre-8.2 to get someone to fix > > > this. I mostly got ignored or bogus responses. > > > > > > I have just tried Redhat SkipJack 7.3 beta on my Gateway 9150XL notebook > > > with the Xircom PC-Card - NO PROBLEMS. > > > > > > With Mandrake 8.2 and still with latest Cooker I get the ethernet (eth0) > > > on the Xircom card coming up only in half-duplex mode (during install it > > > is full-duplex). This problem IS NOT THERE for Mandrake 8.1 and earlier > > > - and Suse and Redhat also have NO problem with this card. ONLY > > > Mandrake 8.2 and latest Cooker are broke. > > > > > > I really like 8.2 (and can't wait for 9.0) - but it would be very nice > > > if this problem can be acknowledged and fixed. > > > > > > Many Thanks, > > > R.Fox > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > >
