[ltp] Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet

[Atul Chitnis]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Pummill wrote:

> Recently purchased a used Xircom 10/100 for my 600E. RedHat 8.0 is
> already installed, so what do I need to do to configure the "new" piece of
> hardware? It doesn't appear to auto-sense it or warn me that any
> unconfigurable hardware has been found or anything like that.

I have used the Xircom 10/100 with modem from late 1998 to early 2003 in 
my Thinkpad 770. I had fairly big problems initially because of the lack 
of cardbus support in the pcmcia code, but that was resolved (like most 
things) over time. When RHL 8 came out, I reormatted my machine, installed 
RHL 8, shoved the card in, and it just worked. period. (earlier I had to 
tell kudzu something about not probing serial ports, but that was a long 
time ago, circa RHL 7.x).

Here's what you could do to find out what's gooing  on:

# chkconfig --list pcmcia
pcmcia          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Make sure that pcmcia is turned on for levels 3 and 5. If it isn't, make 
it so:

# chkconfig --level 35 pcmcia on


now open two terminal windows, and watch the messages file i n one of 
them:

# tail -f /var/log/messages

Then shove in the card, and see what reports in the messages file. You 
should see network and modem related messages coming up.

> Also, how many on the mailing list have already tried the new Mandrake
> and Slackware releases or plan on trying RedHat 9.0 when it debuts?

I will be installed RHL 9 the second it comes out, but this time I am 
worried - the last Beta persistantly locked up on me. Something to do with 
the kernel configuration. So I guess I will be dual boot for a while (RHL 
8 and 9) until any potential issues are sorted out in 9.

> What is the consensus on notebook support from the newest versions
> of those distros?

Don't know about concensus, but I have found notebook and desktop 
technologies converging so much (same/similar video chipsets, motherboard 
chipsets, etc.) that I don't see any difference in level of support for 
notebooks and desktops anymore.

Atul


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