Netcard help (wired)

Forum: Networking
Topic: Netcard help (wired)
started by: gbuscrizist

Posted by gbuscrizist on Jan. 15 2008,21:31

Hey dsl forums, I've booted up the ole laptop running dsl, but I cant seem to configure my netcard, it is a brand new dynex dx-e201. I am running a toshiba pertege 7010ct, which has a pentium 2. I plug in the card, and when the pcmcia manager starts up, the lights on the card start to flash as if it were working, but when i go to the netcardconfig, it says failed when I do the DHCP broadcasting option, but hwen I manually input the data, it tries to send packets, but it says that it failed. Any suggestions? and so you know, it isnt the latest distro of DSL.

Posted by lucky13 on Jan. 15 2008,22:10

Please paste the results of lspci and lsmod (enter those commands at prompt in aterm) here.

Posted by gbuscrizist on Jan. 15 2008,22:33

lsmod

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Module � � � � � � � � �Size �Used by � �Not tainted
soundcore � � � � � � � 3428 � 0 (autoclean)
mousedev � � � � � � � �3832 � 0 (unused)
hid � � � � � � � � � �22372 � 0 (unused)
input � � � � � � � � � 3168 � 0 [mousedev hid]
cloop � � � � � � � � �39364 � 0 (unused)
af_packet � � � � � � �13544 � 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 � � � � � 2844 � 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 � � � � � � � 4348 � 1 (autoclean)
serial � � � � � � � � 52068 � 0 (autoclean)
usb-storage � � � � � �61952 � 1
usb-uhci � � � � � � � 21836 � 0 (unused)
usbcore � � � � � � � �57824 � 1 [hid usb-storage usb-uhci]
8139too � � � � � � � �13704 � 0
mii � � � � � � � � � � 2240 � 0 [8139too]
crc32 � � � � � � � � � 2816 � 0 [8139too]
ds � � � � � � � � � � �6536 � 2
yenta_socket � � � � � �9504 � 2
pcmcia_core � � � � � �39840 � 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ide-cd � � � � � � � � 28704 � 0
ide-scsi � � � � � � � �9040 � 0
rtc � � � � � � � � � � 7004 � 0 (autoclean

lspci

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200
[MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)
0000:00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01)
0000:00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems
FIR Port (rev 23)
0000:00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev
05)
0000:00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev
05)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems Cinemaster C
3.0 DVD Decoder (rev 02)
0000:14:00.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DFE-690TXD CardBus
PC Card (rev 10)

Posted by lucky13 on Jan. 15 2008,22:48

8139too should be the proper module for that card.

EDIT: I had the wrong driver in mind. I have a card I thought was DFE-690TXD but it's Tulip, which works flawlessly with Linux (and everything else I've tried it with).

Posted by lucky13 on Jan. 15 2008,23:01

Are you using sudo pump -i eth0?

Posted by gbuscrizist on Jan. 15 2008,23:03

Oh, well thanks for trying, do you think you could help point me in the right direction? i also have a wireless card which is a Belkin model #- f5d7010 ver. 5000

EDIT: I tried the sudo pump -i eth0, but it said operation failed

Posted by lucky13 on Jan. 15 2008,23:41

Try killing pump:
sudo pump -k

...unloading the 8139too module:
sudo rmmod 8139too

...then reload it:
sudo modprobe 8139too

...then pump again:
sudo pump -i eth0

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Wireless card... first please check the list of wifi cards in the wiki to see if it's known good or hard to configure. Hopefully we'll have something very soon to make everyone's wireless life easier and better supported.

Posted by gbuscrizist on Jan. 16 2008,18:40

Unloading all the drivers, then reloading them still don't allow the pump.

Posted by lucky13 on Jan. 17 2008,01:09

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Unloading all the drivers, then reloading them still don't allow the pump.

Are you sure that card works? If you bought it at Best Buy, you can take advantage of their friendly return policy and find one that works with Linux. I can vouch that the Netgear FA511 works without any drama in Linux (including DSL and other distros, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD).

Did you get any further with the wireless card? When you have inserted, does it show up as Broadcom (and which version)?