[ltp] Problems with IBM EtherJet cardbus

[Friedemann Baitinger]

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Paul Barrett wrote:

> I have an IBM EtherJet 10/100 Cardbus for my TP 770.  Until a couple
> of weeks ago, it was working well, but since then I have not been able
> to connect using DHCP.  The card appears fine: the dongle lights are
> on indicating no hardware (card, dongle, cable) problem, and Linux
> detects the card: 'cardctl ident' lists the correct card, etc.  

Are you sure that you had this card up and running correctly on a
770? If have tried for months to get it running -- with no luck! If you
scan this mailing list's archive you will find many postings describing
problems with this very card especially on TP-770 machines. It seems to
be working correctly on TP-600 though.

I remember the card was recognized correctly just as you report
it. Everything seemed to be ok, except that datatransfer was messed
up. For instance, when I pinged an other machine on the network the ICMP
echo replies came back out of order. Sometimes a series of packets came
back 10s later than expected. 

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> Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?  Are there any
> (software) tools I can use to check the connection, etc.?

Not me. After messing with the setup for too long I have finally decided
to move to a 3COM 10/100 with a 56K modem. This also fixed this 'other'
problem of the built-in Mwave modem not being supported by Linux.

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Friedemann Baitinger      fb@baiti.net       http://baiti.net/fb/
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