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Question: Is RBEM56G 10/100 Ethernet + Modem 56 supported? 

Forum: Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, Jan 26
From: Stefan Kluth Stefan 

I have:

Laptop Dell Inspiron 3700 450 GT

Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100 * Modem 56, which
identifies itself as  
vers_1 5.0, "Xircom", "CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56",
"CBEM56G",  "1.03"
with dump_cis

Debian frozen potato, stock kernel 2.2.13, pcmcia-cs 3.1.8-4

In short, I did not get the ethernet part of the Xircom card
to work, even though the module "tulip_cb" got loaded ok and
no other obvious messages appeared. If this card is supposed
to work with the software I have I can of course provide more
info.

I succeeded by getting "tulip.c" from 
http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~danilo/linux.shtml (follow the
link "driver" in section IBM EtherJet PC Card Driver),
replacing clients/tulip_cb.c by the new code and
compiling/installing pcmcia-cs. I also pass the two options
"cis_hwaddr=0x170 strict_csr6=1" via /etc/pcmcia/config.ops to
the tulip_cb module. Note that these options are not available
in the standard tulip_cb.c

After reading the relevant postings here I fear that I am
doing something silly and that the card should work. 

I will be grateful for any hints/help. Stefan

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1. Depends on what you mean by "supported" by David Hinds, 2000, Jan 26
(_ Ok: ethernet works with workaround by Stefan Kluth, 2000, Jan 27
(_ More: I tried this on my Inspiron 7500 running RH 6.1 and CBEM56G by Charlie Zender, 2000, Jan 31
(_ See the HOWTO... by David Hinds, 2000, Jan 31
(_ More: OK, it works now by Charlie Zender, 2000, Jan 31
(_ Both issues are tricky by David Hinds, 2000, Jan 31

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