Re: pcmcia problems on network potato install

[Lee Bradshaw <lee@sectionIV.com>]

I've had similar problems with a xircom cardbus (32-bit) network card.
I use dhclient from the dhcp-client package to get all the network
info. The card configures itself with dhcp, but doesn't seem to work
with other network traffic until it sees outgoing traffic while in
promiscuous mode. Just putting the card into promiscuous mode doesn't
seem to work for me.

In one window I 

  ping another_local_system

then in another window I

  sudo tcpdump -i eth0

After starting tcpdump, I start seeing responses to the ping. I can
then kill tcpdump and the card will continue working properly.

You're not crazy. There are known "issues" with these cards. I have a
xircom pcmcia (16-bit) card that works fine.

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:32:57PM +0300, Matt Ratto wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm trying to do an install of potato using a xircom pcmcia network card
> and my HP 800CT. I switched to the older install disks ( thanks Charlie
> ) after experiencing the pcmcia problems noted on this list. 
> 
> Now the install works and grabs the base system using ftp. At this point
> I can switch to another shell and ping the network. But after reboot,
> the installation gets all the way to 'apt configuration', but can't
> access the network. I switch to another shell and, yup, sure enough I
> can't ping the IP of the gateway. I check the configuration ( ifconfig,
> route ) and everything is cool. I can't seem to find any errors in the
> /var/log/messages and the pcmcia card has link lights and activity. 
> 
> Anyone seen this before? Am I crazy? Any advice? 

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