problem starting up Fedora on an IBM Thinkpad 600E using Xircom card

From: ezjab (ezjab_at_ieee.org)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 01:58:31 GMT

I'm reposting a thread from back in April. I made a little
progress back then but bottom line is that I still can not get
Redhat Fedora working on my laptop. It looks like the
os is finding the Xircom card, but the ethernet connection
is not working properly. I would appreciate and additional
help I can get on this item. Details are provided below.

Jim

Lenard wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:12:51 +0000, Jim Anderson wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can use help connecting to the network after installation.
>>
>> I have installed Red Hat Fedora (Fedora Core 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) on an
>> IBM Thinkpad 600E that has a Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card (Xircom
>> Ethernet card: CBE2-10/100BTX). The laptop does not work with the
>> ethernet after booting.
>>
>> When I boot up I get the following message in the boot window messages:
>>
>> Bringing up interface eth0: xircom_cb device eth0 does not seem to be
>> present, delaying initialization. [FAILED]
>>
>
> This normal for the default configuration which attempts to start the
> network service before the pcmcia service.
>
>
>> and in the /var/log/boot.log file the PCMCIA except is: ... localhost
>> pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA serices localhost pcmcia: cardmgr. localhost rc:
>> Starting pcmcia: succeeded ...
>>
>
> See, the pcmcia service has succeeded in starting, if your pcmcia
ethernet
> card is recognized then you should be able to use it for networking.
>
>
>> If I run '/sbin/cardctl ident', I get the following:
>>
>> Socket 0:
>> no product info available
>> Socket 1:
>> product info: "Xircom", "CardBus Ethernet II 10/100", "CBEII-10/100",
>> "1.03" manfid: 0x0105, 0x0103
>> function: 6(network)
>>
>
> The card seems to be recognized correctly, no problem here.
>
>
>> It looks like the PCMCIA card is alive and well, but Fedora is not
>> finding 'xircom_cb'. Can anyone help me? Do I have to make a
>> configuration change? Or does the driver have to be installed.
>>
>
> Check 'cat /proc/modules.conf' without the quotes, is the xircom_cb
module
> loaded or not? If not what happens when as root you type something like
> '/sbin/modprobe xircom_cb' without the quotes?

The file looks like it is /proc/modules. It has the line:

xircom_cb 9000 1

so this part looks ok.

>
> What does 'ifconfig eth0' show?

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:03:12:8C
           inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:650 (650.0 b) TX bytes:7398 (7.2 Kb)
           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4800

I compared this to the output of 'ifconfig eth0' on my desktop
and it looks normal to this newbie eye.

>
> What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 look like?

% cat ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet

This is right out of the box and I assume it is ok.

>
> Please review;
>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-network-config.html
>
>
>
>

Thanks for the pointer. I reviewed the document that you pointed me to
and I brought up the tool. In the tool, it looks to
me like the s/w thinks the ethernet interface is working.
I tried to ping my desktop on my LAN and got the following:

PING 192.168.1.101 (192.168.1.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=0 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=11 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=12 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=13 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.105 icmp_seq=14 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.1.101 ping statistics ---
16 packets transmitted, 0 received, +15 errors, 100% packet loss, time
15038ms
, pipe 4

Jim

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