On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:57, Technoslick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 20:00, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 09:40, Technoslick wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 12:10, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I was looking at 9.1 when I sent that... > > > > > > > > The two listings for the SMC card are > > > > > > > > > > > > card "SMC EZ 10/100 Fast Ethernet" > > > > manfid 0x01bf, 0x2220 > > > > bind "tulip" > > > > > > > > card "SMC EZ 10/100 Fast Ethernet" > > > > manfid 0x01bf, 0x2225 > > > > bind "tulip" > > > > > > > > >From 9.1 As you can see the manfid changes but not the driver. Adding > > > > this to /etc/pcmcia/config if it is not present then doing > > > > /etc/init.d/pcmcia may get you running. (assuming that the above isn't > > > > in 9.0's file) > > > > > > > > James > > I contacted technical support at SMC a little while ago. What I > suspected after my compiling problem was that the scripts were written > for Red Hat systems. It turns out to be true, and the only system they > have tested on. Their stance is that this PC Card is Linux compatible, > though not necessarily Mandrake compatible. They suggested that I look > to the Web to see if anyone has source code or RPMs for Mandrake on this > Card. Well, I have already search high and wide, but found nothing > reflecting Mandrake for this card. I will continue to look, of course. > > I did try, just for the fun of it, to play around with my > /etc/pcmcia/config to see if I could manipulate the O/S to load some > module that would work. 'tulip' didn't work, using your manfid setting > and the ones that showed up on boot-up. I tried 'pcnet_cs' with the > manfid settings I am seeing and it still wouldn't load. One thing that > tech support did answer me on was what the chipset used on this card > would either be Realtek or National Semiconductor, but he wouldn't be > able to tell me which. > > Beyond this, I am on my own. > > Thanks again for your help. If you come up with any ideas, please post > them here or write to me directly. > > T
One thing to note. Both the realtek and the Nat SemiConductor use the tulip driver. One note.. I checked the Red Hat lists... guess what ... people there are having just as much trouble. A small windows illusion that sometimes gets carried over to Linux... Linux is Linux. Drivers are in the kernel and the kernel is the kernel. So if it works in Red Hat at this level it's not a real switch to get it working in MDK or SuSE or .... mostly a recompile if the c libs are dramatically different. Hey I'm writting and googling at the same time here..change the last line in the two addins I gave you before from bind tulip to bind tulip_cb and restart pcmcia. James (PS the two I gave you before one is realtek one is NatSemi but I don't know which is which)
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