Re: Fwd: Problems with Xircom Ethernet II

[Matthias Meyer <M.Meyer@maxonline.at>]

:-(
Thanks

Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2002 09:25 schrieben Sie:
> Matthias Meyer wrote:
> > Really, nobody can help me?
> >
> > :-(
>
> I'm afraid not. It will not work, because there is nothing that initializes
> the card bus, thus the pcacket driver cannot access the Xircom card.
>
> I did once have limited success with a HP Omnibook 300? and a 3com PCMCIA
> NIC. It seemed that the HP BIOS provided some sort of initialization for
> the card bus. But it worked very flakey with lots of packet errors. But i
> managed to boot a linux kernel which was able to set up the card correctly
> and run a diskless client.
> But that was really very much luck..
>
> Heinrich
>
> > ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
> >
> > Subject: Problems with Xircom Ethernet II
> > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:01:26 +0200
> > From: Matthias Meyer <M.Meyer@maxonline.at>
> > To: netboot@baghira.han.de
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I build an netboot-floppy as descriped in
> > http://netboot.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?doc=INSTALL&lang=german
> >&sou rce=index&title=Netboot-Installation. I use the packet-driver from
> > the nic-disk called cbepd.com and define PCIIRQ as parameter as I would
> > asked from makerom.
> >
> > My laptop boot from this floppy until the message:
> >
> > Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 Adapter Packet Driver v3.10 (000501)
> > Copyrigth (C) Xircom, Inc. 1996-2000 All rights reserved.
> >
> > SINT 60, Memory Address CC000, IRQ 11, Node Address 0010A4051111
> >
> > found packet driver at int 60, irg 0B
> > appears.
> > On my server (where LTSP is installed an other PCs can boot from using
> > rom-o-matic) I can't see any network traffic on the interface.
> >
> > Any Idea what is wrong?
> >
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