Four weeks ago I asked this group to help me find an ethernet card for
my laptop. I had a 3c575 that didn't work. The advice I got was
mixed: the NE2000 is flawed; the NE2000 is reliable. That was the
only advice that seemed to apply to PCMCIA cards. Most people were
using PCI cards.
I have since loaded several new PCMCIA packages from
ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia, including a NEW/ one from last
week. The 3c575 still doesn't work. The driver identifies it
properly. But I am unable to ping.
I know the laptop is not the problem and I know my network
configuration is not the problem and I know the network connection is
working. I have no problems using a borrowed Farallon EtherWave card
(that shows up as a 3c589).
So last Friday I decided to abandon the 3c575 (altho I cannot return
it) and try a new card. I considered a Farallon, but I didn't want to
deal with that rather large mini-hub they attach to the card.
Carefully studying the SUPPORTED.CARDS file and trying to somehow
relate the part numbers to the vaguely similar part numbers on the PC
Connection web page, I eliminated card after card. I finally picked a
Xircom CreditCard CE3B-100BTX.
Last night my brand new card arrived. I plugged it in. It did the
proper double beep. dmesg looked good. I was loading the xirc2ps_cs
1.30 driver and I was connected to a 10BaseT network. But ping
doesn't get out. The LEDs indicate the network link is OK. But there
is no activity.
I tried the card in a friend's laptop (using the 1.29 rev driver).
Same response. Frustrating. As far as I can tell I did everything
right. Fortunately I was able to quickly determine that the
CE3B-100BTX doesn't work so I have hope of getting a refund. Then I
can order another card in the hope that maybe it will work. PC card
roulette. I wonder how many times I can do this before PC Connection
tells me to take a hike...
I'm now thinking of trying an Ositech Four of Diamonds which uses the
smc91c92_cs driver. (I figure I should not buy into the same driver
twice.) Anybody have experience with this card?
Or perhaps I should try a Farallon EtherMac. The reason I didn't try
it before is because the part number was screwy, something like 591.
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