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Question: CardBus and Product Info 

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, Mar 01
From: Sergio Talens-Oliag sto

I've seen in a message from David Hinds that the CardBus cards that do not provide product info are not supported under linux.

I have a Dynalink L100C32-2 and I know of other cards with the same problem (Argosy 10/100 EN-235, Conceptronics CON100TC).

The questions are:

  • Does anyone knows what changes are needed to make the pcmcia package work with this kind of cards?
  • Is there any documentation I can read to try to add support for them?

Thanks in advance,

    Sergio

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Re: Question: CardBus and Product Info

Re: Question: CardBus and Product Info (Sergio Talens-Oliag)
Date: 2000, Mar 06
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org> 

The Dynalink card does have product info; there was a PCMCIA driver
bug that prevented it from being used properly.  This is fixed in the
current beta for 3.1.12.  The card still doesn't work, because the
current tulip driver isn't able to configure it correctly.  That's a
more serious issue and I don't know how to fix that.

As for the other cards you mention, I don't know anything about them,
so I don't know if the same 3.1.12 fix will apply to them or not.  I
also can't guess if, independent of the product info, these cards are
likely to work under Linux anyway.

-- Dave

News: Dynalink L100C32 and Product Info

Re: Re: Question: CardBus and Product Info (David Hinds)
Date: 2000, Mar 07
From: Sergio Talens-Oliag sto 

Last sunday I sent an e-mail to support@dynalink.nl and on
monday (this guys are really fast), they sent me a DOS utility
to upgrade the CIS (it gives the card a manufacturer id, so
cardctl can detect it) and an experimental linux driver (the
card uses a realtek 8139 chip, so the driver is the rtl8139.c
from Donald Becker, with a patch to detect the IRQ).

I've tested it and it works, but only if you have two cards.

I did two tests:

1. In my first test I was using another card on slot 0 (a
friend's Dynalink L10C) and when i inserted the LC100C32 it
worked fine.

2. In the second test, i used only the LC100C32, but it locks
the machine. I suppose the problem is in the patch to detect
the IRQ, but i think it's easy to fix, if i succed i'll post a
message with the patches.

  Sergio
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