Re: tulip.c + Netgear FA511 + RH9 + 2.4 kernel + Omnibook 800CT = nothing back

On 2003-08-14 at 20:41EDT Donald Becker wrote:
> > > My first guess is that you have an IRQ problem, which
> > > might be the PCMCIA (really "CardBus") control code.
> > 
> > Seems likely given the above. What now?
> 
> Very carefully read the PCMCIA+CardBus information in the
> kernel message logs.  The answer is probably there.

Hmm. I had a sudden thought last night that maybe the BIOS
was doing something wrong (I remembered problems years ago
when reconfiguring the parallel port -- it said one thing
but did another until the battery had been ejected).  So I
ejected the battery, and while booting up decided to check
the I/O settings.

Everything seemed fine, so I had a look for other options,
and found one I'd never seen before, under a "boot devices"
menu -- well, I didn't want to change the boot device, so
why look in there? It said PC socket mode. I changed it from
PCIC to cardbus, and hey presto! I'm using the new card.

Many thanks for your help, which got me thinking about the
right things. I apologise for using your time on a matter
that turned out not to be NIC specific. I'll resist
inserting reminiscences about times when configuring
computers was much simpler¹, involving switches and paper
tapes, but as there are so many possible combinations of
hardware these days, I'll use that excuse.

So far, I've only had problems with three NICs. In one case
it was so old I couldn't find a driver for it at all, and in
the two other cases I got them going on Linux but not
Windows, so that's Becker 2 - Microsoft nil!

Many thanks

  Jón

[1] but perhaps more effort ;-)
-- 
Jón Fairbairn

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