Laptop & SMC CardBus

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Carlos E. [iso-8859-1] García Díaz wrote:
> I have a Compaq Presario Laptop with an "SMC EZ CardBus 10/100 PC Card"
> and Linux Redhat 6.2. The NIC is recognized by cardmgr but it don't
> work.
..
> May  5 20:25:12 mikonos kernel: tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99
> becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (modified by danilo@cs.uni-magdeburg.de for
> XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)

That's an old, modified driver version.  "Not my fault."

> May  5 20:25:12 mikonos kernel: eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at
> 0x280, FF:00:FF:00:03:00, IRQ 3.

The driver read the EEPROM incorrectly.

Run 'tulip-diag' to verify the EEPROM has reasonable contents -- it likely
does, it's just that driver doesn't read the EEPROM correctly.
  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210
Annapolis MD 21403


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