I installed Slackware 10 running default 2.4 kernel on an old labtop,
a Dell Inspiron 5000.
Its using a Xircom Realport Cardbus ethernet/modem. RBEM56G-100

the slackware installer says to chose the third option in netconfig,
something about loop back, so i did.

during bootup it detects a Xircom Cardbus adapter at eth0 using irq11,
and loads xircom_tulip_cb

after some searching, i think its supposed to use the modules
xircom_cb and serial_cb. the card doesn't show up under
/etc/pcmcia/config, and neither does the module xircom_cb. i don't
know if/how i'm supposed to add it.

i don't really know what i'm doing. i read the ethernet how-to at
tldp, and a bunch of other stuff, and i don't feel any closer to
figuring it out.

any help in this matter would be appreciated.
and any recomendations on a wireless card that would run without any
fiddling would be nice. everything else in install went smoothly.
unlike my previous aborted attempt on my desktop (about 6 months ago),
i've got sound (very tinny labtop sound)!!!

Barnette wrote:

> the slackware installer says to chose the third option in netconfig,
> something about loop back, so i did.

Something about this part sounds funky to me. It sounds like your card is
being detected, and the modules are being loaded, but I would guess that
you need to reconfigure the interface. Try running "netconfig" from a
terminal window, and then run "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_restart" to restart
the interface.

You can also run "/sbin/ifconfig" to see what interfaces are "up". You
should see both "lo" (the loopback interface) and "eth0" (your ethernet
card).

(By the way, I have slackware running on a Dell Inspiron 5000 as well.)

Good luck,
Jeffrey