Hello all, 
I'm a Linux newbie... I have this ThinkPad 560X with an "el cheapo"
TE100-PCBUSR (Tulip-based) cardbus NIC that I want to get on the
Internet by means of tomsrtbt-1.7.361.

Booting my ThinkPad with tomsrtbt-1.7.361 gives me (copied by hand):

...
cardmgr[32]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[32]: unsupported card in socket 0
cardmgr[32]:   product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", ""
cardmgr[32]:   manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02  function: 6 (network)
...

A bit of digging revealed that this NIC was Tulip-based. I thus ran
unpack.s and put:

card "TE100-PCBUSR"
  manfid 0x13d1, 0xab02
  bind "tulip_cb"

in [whatever]/usr/pcmcia/config and cb_enabler.o, tulip_cb.o, and
cardbus.o in [whatever]/usr/lib/modules/pcmcia/ (though cardbus.o does
not seem to be used). Finally, I ran buildit.s and booted with my new
distro. Everything seemed to be OK until "pcmcia start" gave me (again
copied by hand):

...
cardmgr[160]: executing './network start eth0'
cardmgr[160]: + ioctl: Operation not supported on transport endpoint

Also, dhcpcd-- gives me:

...
eth0: 21143 10mpbs sensed media
Looking for DHCPOFFER...
eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is fc06c012, CSR6 ff970117
eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good.


ERROR
timeout

I think my problem may be solved in a more recent tulip.o driver (from 

<http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html>

), but I don't feel comfortable enough about compiling a module for an
older kernel (I'm running Red Hat 7.1 on my desktop PC) to give it a
try. _Please_ help me out.

Oh, and I'd be happy to give you more detailed boot messages _if_ you
can tell me how to grab them automatically. :-)


Cheers,
Christian E. J�rgensen

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