My wireless Linksys card is recognized and functions without problem.
However, I have tried numerous other pcmcia cards to no avail. I get one
beep and nothing in dmesg. No modules load. I am slack 9.1 on older
generic laptop. I have not had problems with these cards in Red Hat in
past. The one card is a Xircom CBEM56G-100. What am I missing?

>>>"jjf" <jfeider@wi.rr.com> Tue, 03 Feb 2004 02:57:57 GMT>>>

> My wireless Linksys card is recognized and functions without problem.
> However, I have tried numerous other pcmcia cards to no avail. I get
> one beep and nothing in dmesg. No modules load.

So I guess you have tried #lsmod to look for modules that have been
loaded?

> I am slack 9.1 on older
> generic laptop. I have not had problems with these cards in Red Hat
> in past. The one card is a Xircom CBEM56G-100. What am I missing?
>

I don't have a quick answer, but as I am myself struggling with an
SMC2632W-V2 wireless card I have some ideas of where to look.

bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/pcmcia/config |grep -A 3 Xircom\ CBEM
card "Xircom CBEM56G-100 CardBus 10/100 Ethernet + 56K Modem"
version "Xircom", "*", "CBEM56G"
bind "tulip_cb" to 0, "serial_cb" to 1

This is the default /etc/pcmcia/config file on slack9.1 so yours should
be the same. tulip_cb is the ethernet module, serial_cb the modem.

bash-2.05b$ locate tulip_cb
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_tulip_cb.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.22/pcmcia/xircom_tulip_cb.o.gz
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_tulip_cb.c

That doesn't quite match, so I think I'd edit /etc/pcmcia/config and
change tulip_cb to xircom_tulip_cb. Remember I'm just guessing.

bash-2.05b$ locate serial_cb
bash-2.05b$

So serial_cb doesn't exist on my system, a stock slack9.1. Gotta find it
somewhere...

Also, put the card in the slot and run
#cardctl ident
Here's mine:
bash-2.05b# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "3Com", "3C574-TX Fast EtherLink PC Card", "A", "001"
manfid: 0x0101, 0x0574
function: 6 (network)
bash-2.05b#

Does this match what is written in the /etc/pcmcia/config file?
You can replace the 'version' line in the config file with the 'manfid'
line in the cardctl output to make sure that the card is well
identified.

Good info: PCMCIA-Howto, comp.os.linux.portable

That's all I know. HTH.

danm

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 00:36:44 -0500
danm <samuthas@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > I am slack 9.1 on older
> > generic laptop. I have not had problems with these cards in Red Hat
> > in past. The one card is a Xircom CBEM56G-100. What am I missing?
> >
>
> bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/pcmcia/config |grep -A 3 Xircom\ CBEM
> card "Xircom CBEM56G-100 CardBus 10/100 Ethernet + 56K Modem"
> version "Xircom", "*", "CBEM56G"
> bind "tulip_cb" to 0, "serial_cb" to 1
>
> This is the default /etc/pcmcia/config file on slack9.1 so yours
> should be the same. tulip_cb is the ethernet module, serial_cb the
> modem.
>

It's a _CardBus_ card. That means that eventhough it plugs into a
PCMCIA slot, it is treated as if it was a PCI card. Hotplug should be
loading the drivers. I have an older Gateway Solo laptop,running Slack
9.1, and one of these Xircom cards. I did no setup except to run
netconfig to enter my netwrk settings. When I stick in the Xircom card,
hotplug loads the modules and sets up the networking.

Mike