Re: Surecom CardBus with chip 428x

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:26:19 -0400 (EDT)
Donald Becker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Juan Martin wrote:
> 
> > this is my first message to the list. My problems is I have a Surecom
> > 32bit 100/10M CardBus PCCard (as the package says) with 2.4.22 kernel
> > with Cardbus support. I'm really tired (4 days and nights) of try the
> > 8139too.o kernel driver, of compile pcmcia-cs, of try realtek_cb.o
> > from scyld.com web page,
> 
> Why are you trying to use realtek_cb.o with the 2.4 kernel?  That's only
> for a few legacy 2.2 installations.

It seems that i fell for the same trap of using realtek_cb with 2.4
(2.4.20 and pcmcia-cs-3.2.3), and...

> > I do a ping to the PC from the laptop and never obtain response. But the
> > led is flashing and the more incredible, gkrellm shows that 60 bytes are
> > being received and sent until I do Ctrl+C to the ping command in the
> > laptop!.
> > Even, I do ping from PC to laptop but in this case gkrellm show 60 bytes
> > transmitting and 0 receiving.
> 
> This sounds like a routing problem, not a driver problem.
> 
> What is reported in /proc/net/dev?

i get exactly the same problem: after inserting the card with all settings
right, it seems to transmit but never receive any packets.
more surprisingly, a perfectly reliable workaround is to enable promiscous
mode on the interface until some packets are received (eg run tcpdump on
the interface).

Another problem this combination seems to have is that the driver crashes
and locks up the system (printing a endless stack trace on the console)
if the card is ejected while the driver is loaded (which together with
the flaky pcmcia slot in my notebook (thanks, sony!) makes for some really
fun crashes).
it otherwise also randomly crashes other stuff, but that might also be
caused by the problem above,
or sometimes stops working until it's rejected/reinserted (physically).

but then, we should all just switch to the right driver and forget about
it...

Greetings,
 Thorben Thuermer