pcmcia problems

[Dave Sherman <dcsherman@uswest.net>]

Hey all --

Well, I've been trying to get my 3Com CardBus pcmcia lan card working, to no
avail. The card is listed as supported in supported.cards. Caldera hasn't been
much 
help unfortunately, and I haven't really found any useful pointers in either the 
pcmcia howto, or the linux on laptops website.

On boot, it seems that cardctl detects the card ok, I hear the two beeps telling
me pcmcia services are started, but then a little later I see some errors flash
by regarding device eth0. The error message was something like "eth0: interrupt
posted 
but not delivered - possible irq conflict?" Eventually the error times out, and
bootup
continues normally.

Anyway, ifconfig shows that eth0 is up and running, but I can't ping anything on
our company lan. I can ping myself, of course, but that has nothing to do with
the card. I tried adding "include memory 0x40000000-0x40000fff" to
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts (as one linux laptop site creator did), but that did not
help me any. Windows 98 tells me that my O2Micro CardBus Controller is at the
memory address previously mentioned, and IRQ 9. Linux sets my eth0 to
IRQ 3 (from /proc/interrupts), and cardctl config shows the correct card type on
IRQ 
3 as well (Win98 shows IRQ 3 as free). Windows 98 places my ESS Solo soundcard
at IRQ 
5, and so does Linux.

I am running out of ideas fast. Anyone?

Dave
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