Have you installed the latest pcmcia code?
(pcmcia-cs-3.0.9.tar.gz)
Also, have you installed all the errata for RH5.2? If not, you can use
autorpm to do it for you. (http://www.kaybee.org/~kirk/html/linux.html)
Hugo
P.S. Have you managed to use your 9-pin serial port under Linux?
On 25-Feb-99 Rusty Ballinger wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 4015CDT with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC card
> (and
> the modem which came with the laptop). Until last week, I had Red Hat
> 5.0, and
> life was good; the network card worked with multiple schemes and no
> problems.
>
> Last week I upgraded to 5.2, and now I can't get the network card to work.
> I'm
> sure it's something simple, but my random fumblings have been
> unsuccessful.
>
> It's being recognized correctly ("cardctl ident" shows it), but I think
> it's
> failing because eth0 isn't being created correctly. ifconfig doesn't show
> eth0, and the message log shows
>
> ...kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x300, irq 5, hw_addr ...
> ...cardmgr[205]: executing: './network start eth0'
> ...cardmgr[205]: + usage: ifup <device name>
> ...cardmgr[205]: start cmd exited with status 1
>
> modprobe -c shows eth0 aliased to "off". I added "alias eth0 ne" and
> "options
> ne io=0x300 irq=5" to my /etc/conf.modules, but after rebooting, "modprobe
> -c |
> grep eth0" shows both "alias eth0 ne" and "alias eth0 off" (and I still
> don't
> have an eth0).
>
> Another thing is that "modprobe ne" reports "NE*000 ethercard probe at
> 0x300:
> not found (invalid signature ff ff)." (Which reminds me, I added
> "PCIC_OPTS=poll_interval=100" to my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia because I was
> seeing
> "RequestIRQ: Resource in use" messages. No idea how that affects things.)
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? (There is a CardBus version of this card
> which
> uses the tulip driver; other people who've asked about this card on
> newsgroups
> have been told to try tulip.c v0.90 using the instructions on Linksys'
> site,
> which I did, but I think that card is different than the one I have.)
>
> --Rusty
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