It may just be that the card is not yet initialized when the dhcpcd runs,
it looks almost like it is in fact working, what it the output of:
ifconfig
after it is all settled, and what do you see if you type the
dhcpcd--
command again a little while later? It might just need a 'sleep 5'...
-Tom
On 23 Dec 2001, Christian E. [iso-8859-1] J�rgensen wrote:
> Date: 23 Dec 2001 01:04:56 +0100
> From: "Christian E. [iso-8859-1] J�rgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] Tulip-based cardbus NIC and tomsrtbt-1.7.361
>
> 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
>
