Re: 9.2 Networking/Internet

From: Russell Bungay (bigmaddrongo_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:05:28 +0000

Russell Bungay wrote:
>> This might be a long shot, but is this the only ethernet interface on
>> your computer? I have a built in NIC but use a wireless so had to
>> make sure that the built in (eth0) is off or the critter wants to send
>> packets out that port even though there's no cable in it. Might your
>> laptop have another NIC that is inactive?
> There is a wireless card built in as well. I checked in the YaST
> Hardware information and the modules are currently active. In the
> network set-up the wireless card is listed in detected interfaces but
> has nothing set up for it (i.e. isn't in the list below with the wired
> interface).
> I shall now embark on some research to figure out to stop the wireless
> card.

Having done some reading around, I cam across information that may be
directly applicable to my situation. Apparently, there can be
difficulties with hardware interupts and such with PCMCIA that may
effect other things. This is a subject I have absolutely no
understanding of so I shall make no attempt to describe in detail. The
articles that I base this on are at:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/BUGS
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html

Of particular importance is the fact tha I have a Toshiba laptop and
Windows reports use of two 'Toshiba ToPIC100 CardBus Controllers'.

The way I see it I now have two possible options assuming this to be the
cause of my problems):

Attempt to diagnose and solve the controller/interrupt problems.
Completely disable PCMCIA and hope that makes the problems go away.

As I said, I have no knowledge whatsoever of such things and can't
imagine that I would ever have any need for PCMCIA (including the
wireless netwrok card) so I like the look of the second option :)

Would anyone be able to offer advice as to how to achieve this?

Thank you,

Russell

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