Inserted a very old 3ccfe574BT PCMCIA ethernet card into my newly installed RedHat 7.2 laptop and heard the customary 2 beeps, the green light on the network card appeared... and all seemed well.
However, I then used Gnome's Programs->System->NetworkConfiguration tool and tried to add an ethernet device... the 3ccfe574BT was not even listed there. Should it be ? Trying to use any other 3com device listed there results in an expected "The Ethernet card could not be initialized". In short, some symptoms point to the the 3Com 574 being recognized whilst others show that it is not : 1. Ifconfig only shows the local loopback interface. 2. The eth0 network script has not been created in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. 3. /var/lib/pcmcia/stab contains : Socket 0: 3com 572/574 Fast Ethernet 0 network 3c574_cs 0 eth0 Socket 1: empty 4. lsmod reports : 3c574_cs 0 (unused) ds 2 [3c574_cs] yenta_socket 2 pcmcia_core 0 [3c574_cs ds yenta_socket] 5. the last lines in /var/log/messages (I've cut out the 'localhost' and date columns) : 17:22:18 cardmgr[9360]: starting, version is 3.1.22 17:22:18 cardmgr[9360]: config error, file './config.opts' line 8: no function bindings 17:22:18 cardmgr[9360]: open_sock(socket 0) failed: Device or resource busy 17:22:18 cardmgr[9360]: no sockets found! 17:22:18 cardmgr[9360]: exiting 17:22:39 cardmgr[780]: initializing socket 0 17:22:39 cardmgr[780]: socket 0: 3Com 572/574 Fast Ethernet 17:22:40 cardmgr[780]: executing: 'modprobe 3c574_cs' 17:22:40 cardmgr[780]: executing: './network start eth0' 17:22:40 kernel: 3c574_cs.c v1.08 9/24/98 Donald Becker/David Hinds, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:22:40 kernel: eth0: Megahertz 574B at io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:50:04:FC:FD:5D. 17:22:40 kernel: ASIC rev 1, 64K FIFO split 1:1 Rx:Tx, autoselect MII interface. 17:22:43 cardmgr[9398]: starting, version is 3.1.22 17:22:43 cardmgr[9398]: config error, file './config.opts' line 8: no function bindings 17:22:43 cardmgr[9398]: open_sock(socket 0) failed: Device or resource busy 17:22:43 cardmgr[9398]: no sockets found! 17:22:43 cardmgr[9398]: exiting 17:26:37 cardmgr[780]: shutting down socket 0 17:26:37 cardmgr[780]: executing: './network stop eth0' 17:26:38 cardmgr[780]: stop cmd exited with status 1 17:26:38 cardmgr[780]: executing: 'modprobe -r 3c574_cs' 17:27:09 cardmgr[780]: initializing socket 0 17:27:09 cardmgr[780]: socket 0: 3Com 572/574 Fast Ethernet 17:27:10 cardmgr[780]: executing: 'modprobe 3c574_cs' 17:27:10 kernel: 3c574_cs.c v1.08 9/24/98 Donald Becker/David Hinds, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:27:10 cardmgr[780]: executing: './network start eth0' 17:27:10 kernel: eth0: Megahertz 574B at io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:50:04:FC:FD:5D. 17:27:10 kernel: ASIC rev 1, 64K FIFO split 1:1 Rx:Tx, autoselect MII interface. Any ideas why this might be happening ? Thank you, chas _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
