Xircom_cb missing (Fedora Core 2.4.22-1.2115nptf)

I've been trying in 'comp.os.linux.setup' to resolve this
problem since April and have not succeeded yet. I would
appreciate any help since my laptop is running well except
there is no networking. The problem and steps taken so far
follow.

Jim Anderson


| On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:54:25 +0000, Jim Anderson wrote:
|
|
|
| >>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 this 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 out of the box and I assume it is ok.
|
|
| 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
|
|
| You might want to review/edit the /etc/resolv.conf file and
| manually add the DNS IP address information, sample below;
|
| $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
| ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
| nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
| nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
|
| Sometimes depending on the gateway device (some NAT
| routers for example) this information is not passed to Linux
| correctly and is missing. You can get the namesever information
| from your gateway device or your desktop system.
|
| In addition you might modify
| /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
| and add a line suppling the gateway's infomation (the gateway's IP
| address), sample below (based on what you have already posted);
|
| % cat ifcfg-eth0
| DEVICE=eth0
| BOOTPROTO=dhcp
| ONBOOT=yes
| TYPE=Ethernet
| GATEWAY=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX



|| Lenard, I tried both the changes that you suggested, but they
|| don't seem to help.
||
|| First change was to /etc/resolv.conf where I added the lines:
||
|| nameserver 151.198.0.39
|| nameserver 151.197.0.39
||
|| These lines were taken from the status page of my router
|| under WAN DNS.
||
|| I also changed /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
|| by adding:
||
|| GATEWAY=192.168.1.100
||
|| where the IP address is the internal LAN address of my router.
||
||
|| Jim