Re: tlug: Problems with 3Com 3C575-TX

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to get 3Com's 3C575-TX FastEthernet CardBus PCMCIA
> card working in my VAIO PC-505 notebook.  I am running
> TurboLinux 3.0J's APM kernel version 2.0.36 with
> kernel-pcmcia-cs version 3.0.6.
> 
> When I put the card in the slot, it is recognized,
> initialized, and the network settings are correctly set up.
> I can ping the card with its own IP address, but I cannot
> reach anything else.  Even worse when I eject the card, the
> PCMCIA software is in a strange state and doesn't accept any 
> other (non-CardBus) cards anymore; and if I try, it sometimes 
> locks up the whole machine.
> 
> The driver is Donald Becker's 3c575_cb version 0.99H from 11/17/98.
> 
> I am pretty sure it is a interrupt problem for two reasons:
> 
> (1) Sometimes when I try to access the network via the
>     CardBus card I get a message in /var/log/messages saying
>     `Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by
>     another device?'

after loading the card, cat /var/run/stab - what IRQ is it using?  You can
edit the stuff under /etc/pcmcia to tell it to exclude certain IRQs as
well.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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