[ltp] pcmcia ethernet card hassles

[Goetz van Rissenbeck]

have you tryed the 'ifport' utility from the pcmcia package?

usage: /sbin/ifport interface [auto|10baseT|10base2|aui|100baseT|##]   

goetz

Am Thu, 18 May 2000 schrieb Mike:
>Hi guys,
>
>I've just picked up a 600X with a NetGear FA410 10/100 pcmcia ethernet 
>card. The card works fine when I've booted to '98, but it seems to fail 
>to negotiate speed and duplex settings with my switch under linux 
>(debian potato, 2.2.15, pcmcia v3.1.8).
>
>The card appears to be initialized okay, I've followed the instructions 
>on every Thinkpad 600 site I can find and it just won't work.
>
>/var/log/messages shows the pcmcia subsystem and the card are 
>initialized fine, except for the following lines:
>[...] wintermute kernel: eth0: found link beat
>[...] wintermute kernel: eth0: lost link beat
>
>The network is configured fine, and the problem perists if the switch 
>port is locked to any combination of half or full duplex and 10M or 100M 
>inseatd of trying to auto-negotiate. There aren't any resource conflicts 
>AFAIK.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>TIA, Mike.
>
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