[ltp] 760xl & PC Card Networking?

[Chris Weiss]

It sounds like I may have one of those very rare cases - I couldn't find any
reference to this kernel<-->BIOS IRQ issue on the sourceforge pages, could
you give me some pointers on where to dig for more info?

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From: owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
[mailto:owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com]On Behalf Of Tino Keitel
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:55 PM
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject: Re: [ltp] 760xl & PC Card Networking?


On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 15:40:55 -0700, Chris Weiss wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck getting networking working with *nix on a 760xl?
If
> so, which card did you use and did you have to do anything special?
> I've got a NetGear FA-510, which theoretically uses the Tulip driver, but
> have had no luck getting networking to work. With Mandrake 8.2, the only

See http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

> error I can locate is "could not determine IRQ for Pin A or Pin B". The

This is a kernel<-->BIOS issue. According to Dave Hinds (the author of
pcmcia-cs, this should be only a problem in very rare cases.

Tino

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