Re: Xircom_cb missing (Fedora Core 2.4.22-1.2115nptf)

From: Jim Anderson (ezjab_at_ieee.org)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:54:25 GMT

Hi,

In April I post regarding this problem, and I had a follow up in
May, but still no success getting the ethernet interface working
on my laptop. I'm reposting the April post which has most of
the relevant information in it. Unfortunately, my other laptop
is out for repairs and I don't have the post from May available.

Lenard, if you replay to this, can you please also send a
reply to my e-mail address and include your e-mail address.
If it is ok with you I would like to send any follow up
questions to you. I respect that you probably don't want
your e-mail address posted and I will make sure it does
not get included on posts to the news group.

Jim

attached mail follows:

>From - Mon Jun 21 09:57:55 2004


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:33:30 GMT

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 the 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 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'll reveiw the document and see if I
can find something meaningful there.

Jim

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>From - Mon Jun 21 09:58:05 2004


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:42:51 GMT

Lenard,

Two additional things. First, I forgot to say thank you
for you help. Thanks! I really appreciate the help.

Second, I tried using the document 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

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?
>
> What does 'ifconfig eth0' show?
>
> What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 look like?
>
> Please review;
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-network-config.html
>
>
>
>

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