Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody
I wrote:
>> # cardctl ident
>> Socket 1:
>> product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", ""
>> manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02
>> function: 6 (network)
Jesse Meyer wrote:
>[I've got the same card,] FCC ID of "MQ4C2K5MX"
> [...] under the 2.4 debian kernel, I have
> got the card to work, but only using the 2.4 boot floppy kernel and the
> package pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4. The driver seems to be 'tulip_cb',
> the regular 'tulip' driver in the kernel does not seem to work.
I poked around some more. I never did get the hang of building
"Debianized" kernels; I've always used the upstream kernel source.
When I installed the current upstream pcmcia-cs, and Debian's hotplug
package, the tulip.o in my /lib/modules/2.4.21 started working!
For the record, it seems there are two ways to support PCMCIA cards.
You have to choose the kernel's internal drivers -or- the ones
that come with Dennis Hinds' pcmcia-cs.
Debian uses pcmcia-cs, but packages the driver modules separately
as pcmcia-drivers.
Jesse reports tulip_cb from there works, and I can now report
success with the tulip and mii modules from the 2.4.21 kernel.
In my case, the hotplug package was the missing piece.
(Perhaps this is a packaging issue. Maybe the Cardbus drivers
should be in their own package, with hotplug a dependency.)
The Cardbus Tulip is noticeably faster than the PCcard 3CCFEM556.
3Com discontinued the 3CCFEM556. It's too bad, because that card also
contains the best modem I ever used. The 3CCFEM656B which replaced
it uses Cardbus, but it's got a friggin' winmodem!
Cameron
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