[ale] Xircom RealPort2 Cardbus prob

[Wandered Inn]

This is too bizarre.  It works.  Fired up tcpdump, shut it down, it
doesn't drop any packets and now I'm on the network!!

Thanks muchly!!  I was in a real pinch to get this thing cooking as I
need to return some other hardware it's replacing.

Thanks again.

Marc Torres wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:
> > machines on the hub, I can see the led blink, so the thing is trying to
> > send something.
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with this card, or have any suggestions?
> 
>         Been there, pulled that hair out.  I have avoided upgrading
>         my kernel for an age on my thinkpad because of this problem.
> 
>         One of the SuSE guys issued a workaround patch that fixes it
>         99% of the time, and I thought it was incorperated into the
>         standard PCMCIA source tree a long time ago.
> 
>         There is one other workaround that I know of:  Use iptraf or
>         tcpdump to send the card into promiscuous mode - when you
>         quit the app the card will work fine.
> 
>         There is a PCMCIA-post script of sorts that runs after all
>         the cards have been loaded, you could put a tcpdump with a
>         5 second or packet collection limit on it to /dev/null and
>         that should do the trick.
> 
>         That should also cover the case of executing the workaround
>         when coming out of suspend.
> 
>         BTW:  I have had zero problems with the modem under linux.
> 
>         --marct
>         marct at mindspring.com

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