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Re: ifup failure on PCMCIA net card

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From: tony
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00
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Thanks, Mike, I'll take you up on that.  I put a message on the Xircom 
board at pcmcia.sourceforge.org as well.  David Hinds thinks that it may 
be a peculiarity with Toshiba.  So far, I still have not had a lot of 
joy.  Ah well.

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003200908470.344-100000@tunix.adpag.de>, 
mike@adpag.de says...
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, tony wrote:
> 
> >I have just been playing with the PCMCIA ethernet card on my laptop, 
> >trying to figure out why it won't work.  So far, I have managed to get 
> >the card up if I do the following once I have logged in as root:
> >
> >cardctl eject 1  (beepity beep!)
> >cardctl insert 1  (beep beep)
> >ifup eth0
> >
> >What appears to be happening is that cardmgr isn't recognising the card 
> >at boot time, which is odd because cardctl has no problems (it's a Xircom 
> >CE2).  Cardmgr seems to be identifying the card as an "anonymous memory 
> >card"
> 
> I had the same trouble with a CEM33. Worked out of the box, stopped
> working after a couple of months (anonymous memory, metoo).
> Miraculously started working again after a couple of months, without
> having changed anything related. Still don't know if that was related
> to the card, the notebook (Lion), or the driver (version 3.0.12).
> 
> Please mail me, if you'd like my configs anyway - your problem might
> have other reasons.
> 
> - mike
> 
> 
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From: tony <mrwolfe@tig.com.au>
Subject: Re: ifup failure on PCMCIA net card
Date: 2000/03/22
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