Re: Xircom PCMCIA Etherent/Modem Card

[Paul Schulz <pschulz@foursticks.com.au>]

I've found that the card work well.. provided you put it into 
promiscious mode.

ifconfig eth0 promisc

(The Kernel developers know about this one.)

It uses the tulip_cb module in the 2.2.0 kernel...
or xircom_tulip_cb in the 2.4.0 kernel.

Paul

   Yes.  I have one.  Driver support is not reliable in potato.  If you 
   fiddle with bringing up and down interfaces and restarting pcmcia, you 
   can occasionally get it to work.  The documentation says that support 
   for this card is experimental.  From what I hear, the card will be much 
   better supported in the next major release of the pcmcia drivers.

   Cheers,
   Tim

   Wilson H Yau wrote:

   > Hi, all!
   > 
   > Is there anyone have the experience of using:
   > 
   > Xircom
   > RealPort
   > CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56
   > RBEM56G-100
   > 
   > under Debian Linux Potato 2.2?  Does it give any problems to notebooks
   > like Dell or Sony?
   > 
   > Could anyone please recommend to me any links got the latest information
   > on PC/Laptop hardware compatibility with Debain Linux?
   > 

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