Xircom pcmcia ethernet card not working in Etch
Dear Debian users,
I have just installed Debian Etch, my very first Debian. (Though I've
used Kubuntu before). I did a CD based installation, using the KDE spin.
I am now trying to connect to the network, but I have a problem since
neither the drivers for my laptop's wireless card are installed by default
(it's a PCMCIA card based on the rt2500 chipset) nor my also PCMCIA-based
Xircom ethernet card is working!
I should have no problems getting the wireless running once I can download
the rt2x00-source package. Hence, I am putting all priority in getting
the Xircom ethernet card working. And that's where I need help.
Now, the card seems to be detected fine (at the end of this message
I'm attaching both the output of lspci and from /var/log/messages
after the card is inserted). I brought the interface up manually with
"ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.11 up", and I can ping it from the localhost.
But I can't ping the host on the other end (I'm using a crossover cable)
or vice-versa.
In this list's archives I found something about adding "irqpoll" to the
boot parameters. I tried it, but it didn't make any difference.
Btw, this network card worked fine in other distros, even under very
old kernels (it's an old laptop).
Thanks in advance for your help!
Dario
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lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
(rev 03)
00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:07.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k WinModem (rev 01)
00:09.0 IRDA controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port Type-DO
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus
Bridge with ZV Support (rev 20)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus
Bridge with ZV Support (rev 20)
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio
Controller] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03)
/var/log/messages:
Apr 25 23:02:59 toshi kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
Apr 25 23:02:59 toshi kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Apr 25 23:02:59 toshi kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link
[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Apr 25 23:02:59 toshi kernel: eth0: Xircom cardbus revision 3 at irq 11
Apr 25 23:02:59 toshi kernel: xircom cardbus adaptor found, registering as
eth0, using irq 11
Apr 25 23:03:00 toshi kernel: xircom_cb: Link is 100 mbit
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