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  • Xircom card and laptop

    Thought I'd give it a shot here, even though I have tried through more "official" channels. My brand new laptop is an HP Omnibook 500, to which I have added a PCMCIA network card (Xircom CE3B-100BTX). The card is supported under Linux 2.4. I tried using it, but it wouldn' work at all. No error messages from kernel or PCMCIA utils, but no connectivity.

    Read somewhere that bringing the eth0 interface up and down helps, and so I added a toggle_network line to my startup scripts, which brings the interface up and down 3 times. Now the card works after booting 75% of the time, but the other 25% of the time I have to use my toggle_network script 1 or more times after booting to get it to work. Needless to say, this is an annoyance.

    I was wondering if any of you have had similar experiences, with this or other cards. Thanks for any help, and damned if this baby don't look good with Linux on it!

    -Rahul
    Porsche: MSI K7N2-L, Athlon XP 2100+, G400 32MB DualHead, 1G RAM, 2xMaxtor 20 GB, Gentoo Linux
    Quicksilver: HP Omnibook 500, PIII 700 MHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB, RedHat Linux 9.

  • #2
    You bought an HP..good job

    The mistake was buying a Xircom. I happen to think that they are great cards, but the company hasn't done too well giving the Linux community the support it needs for their products to work well.

    If you can return the card, I would.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      Thats the plan!

      Yep, I think I'm getting a 3Com with an X-Jack. Don't like dongles. When I get the 3Com and confirm that it works, out with the Xircom.

      -Rahul
      Porsche: MSI K7N2-L, Athlon XP 2100+, G400 32MB DualHead, 1G RAM, 2xMaxtor 20 GB, Gentoo Linux
      Quicksilver: HP Omnibook 500, PIII 700 MHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB, RedHat Linux 9.

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      • #4
        3Com works, of course

        Just to let people know that the 3Com 3CXFE575CT card did work for me. Also, I learnt quite a bit about PCMCIA/Cardbus in the past week.

        At least for me, the SMC Cardbus 8035TX and the Xircom CE3B-100BTX cards did not work (perfectly that is). The laptop would not boot with the SMC card inserted, although if I inserted the card after the POST sequence, it booted and the card worked correctly. The Xircom card as I said earlier would not work until I ifup'ed and ifdown'ed eth0 a few times.

        -Rahul
        Porsche: MSI K7N2-L, Athlon XP 2100+, G400 32MB DualHead, 1G RAM, 2xMaxtor 20 GB, Gentoo Linux
        Quicksilver: HP Omnibook 500, PIII 700 MHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB, RedHat Linux 9.

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