I'm trying to get Puppy Linux working on an old laptop. The network card has been detected once I added the right xircom module and I can configure the card and connect it to a network. However even though the card will send out packets, it cannot receive any replies (as shown in the stats of ifconfig).
I have confirmed with a hub and another PC running Wireshark that packets are sent out, but the replies from this PC are apparently not seen by the Xircom.
Is this a known problem, something obvious I can fix? If not I'll have to try a different linux distro - I don't have any other PCMCIA network cards available. I've tried puppy 4.1 (didn't even need to add a module here but same problem with the card) but now running with 3.01 (couldn't create save data with 4.1).
The full details of the card are:
RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+ Modem 56
RBEM56G-100
and I'm using a Dell latitude CPx laptop.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
Xircom cardbus ethernet problem - won't receive any packets
xircom_cb works in puppy 4.1.2 pulp not in 4.3 or 5
I have a bright orange double-thick no-dongle-needed xircom
cardbus card which works perfectly in puppy 4.1.2 pulp,
but in puppy 4.3.1 (kernel 2.6.21) and wary 5.5 and lupu 5.2.5
'no interface seen'. I tried various wizards.
It is my only card that does not require a dongle (which tends
to break or fall out).
Used in a DELL Inspiron 8200 and has been used in other laptops
with two PCMCIA slots.
Lupu 5.2.8 broke support for orinoco_cs, and I think puppy 5
in general stopped supporting non-cardbus cards unless you
edit a line in some file, but what went wrong with xircom?
Is the card omitted from a config file in later puppies?
cardbus card which works perfectly in puppy 4.1.2 pulp,
but in puppy 4.3.1 (kernel 2.6.21) and wary 5.5 and lupu 5.2.5
'no interface seen'. I tried various wizards.
It is my only card that does not require a dongle (which tends
to break or fall out).
Used in a DELL Inspiron 8200 and has been used in other laptops
with two PCMCIA slots.
Lupu 5.2.8 broke support for orinoco_cs, and I think puppy 5
in general stopped supporting non-cardbus cards unless you
edit a line in some file, but what went wrong with xircom?
Is the card omitted from a config file in later puppies?
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Are you sure the version of 5.2.8 you have is lupu-5.2.8.7-20141203.iso ? Or could it besindi wrote:Lupu 5.2.8 broke support for orinoco_cs
lupu3hd-5.2.8.7-20141203.iso
or
lupusuper1-5.2.8.7-k3.0.25-20141203.iso
These other two versions have different kernels. In any case to diagnose (and then hopefully fix) the problem, we need the critical diagnostic information that I explained last February -
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pccardctl status
pccardctl ident
If you cannot see the wifi card listed, reset the Cardbus interface like this -
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pccardctl eject
pccardctl insert
If still no luck, it may be that pcmciautils is not running, so do this -
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pcmcia-socket-startup
Same again. We need the diagnostic commands above, and the resultant device ID.sindi wrote:xircom_cb works in puppy 4.1.2 pulp not in 4.3 or 5