[KLUG Members] Network Card

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>I have just installed Red Hat 7.1 on my new gateway solo 9300
>>>laptop. And >the install went wonderfully! Not a problem!  But, 
>>>and there is always a but, i cant get it to notice my Xircom 
>>>RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem...
>>What is the model of the card (usually written on the bottom side of
>>the card)?
>The Model Number is:  RBEM56G-100

This is a little diffrent than mine,  but might work with the tulip_cb driver.
There is a mini-HOWTO for exactly this card at
"ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/xircom-RBEM56G-howto-1.tar.gz" but it is talking about
2.2.9 so maybe it doesn't really apply.

>>Are the PCMCIA modules loaded?
>I am guessing so.  

Tsck, Tsck, Tsck.  No guessing allowed.

>When i turn the computer off, and read all the messages

After you boot you can replay those messages with "dmesg"

>it says there. It says something about unloading the card, but there
>are tons of errors saying /dev/modem isnt there.  (thats the only one i
>can remember off hand, but there are others)  An something else that struck
>me as odd, is that when i start the comptuer is doesnt say Loading Eth0. 

Eth0 won'd be starting/stopping unless you've configured the IP (OSI Layer 3, 
...sorry... just got done doing network training...) information for the interface.

>So maybe it doesnt have it loading at startup.
>>Did you check out
>>"http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?282"?
>I am reading all that information as we speak!  thanks!
>>If you take the card in and out does the machine beep?
>Yes it does, when i plug it in it beeps and the little red light turns

Cool,  that means the cardmgr(?) sees the change on the PCMCIA bus.

>on that is located on the card.
>>What does /proc/pci say?
>PCI devices found:
>*snip*
>Bus 6, device    0, function 0:
>Ethernet controller: PCI device 115d:0003 (rev 4)
>IRQ 9
>Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=20.Mat Lat=40
>I/O at 0x2400 [0x247f].
>Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x11000000 [0x110007ff].
>Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x11000800 [0x11000fff].
>thats the only thing relating to eithernet i saw in the file.  if u need
>the WHOLE thing, let me know and i'll get typing! :)

Thats enough,  it tells us that everything is there and waiting for an
appropriate driver.

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