pcmcia EtherJet card problems in RedHat 7.2 - Setup

Hi there !

I am trying to get my old Thinkpad 600 running on Linux RedHat 7.2, to
connect to the Internet via an IBM pcmcia EtherJet card. The card does
work on MSWIN 98 on the same system, so the hardware seems OK. My system
RedHat 7.2 includes pcmcia functions, and my file /etc/pcmcia/config does
include a mention of said card :

card "IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus"
manfid 0x00a4, 0x0113
bind "tulip_cb"

device "tulip_cb"
class "network" module "cb_enabler", "tulip-cb"

However, nothing works. Thereafter, here are relevant lines appearing
in my /var/log/messages :

.................
localhost pcmcia: cardmgr[815]: watching 2 sockets
localhost pcmcia cardmgr[815]: watching 2 sockets
localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x130-0x137
0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
localhost pcmcia: done.
localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
localhost cardmgr[816]: unsupported card in socket 1
localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
localhost cardmgr[816]: product info: "IBM", "EtherJet PC Card", "Version
U10", "Card Assy Part Number - 85H4801"
localhost cardmgr[816]: manfid: 0x00a4, 0x003f, function: 6 (network)
....................

ping 192.168.1.1 gives "network unreachable. /sbin/ifconfig shows nothing
more that the loopback

Thanks in advance for any help in getting that EtherJet card to work on my
system

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking
in article and in the Usenet
newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup in article
, Bernard wrote:

[Please do not post the same article to multiple newsgroups.]

>I am trying to get my old Thinkpad 600 running on Linux RedHat 7.2,
>to connect to the Internet via an IBM pcmcia EtherJet card. The card
>does work on MSWIN 98 on the same system, so the hardware seems OK.
>My system RedHat 7.2 includes pcmcia functions, and my file
>/etc/pcmcia/config does include a mention of said card :

Red Hat 7.2 is horribly obsolete - official support ended in 2003, and
even the very limited back-port erratas were ended in May 2004. You
_REALLY_ should not be connecting this box to the Internet, especially
if you haven't installed the erratas - the release is seven years old!.

>However, nothing works. Thereafter, here are relevant lines appearing
>in my /var/log/messages :

But I don't see it being configured. What is the content of
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

[hubble ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=false
HOSTNAME=hubble.phx.az.us
DOMAINNAME=house.network
GATEWAY=
GATEWAYDEV=
[hubble ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.1.117
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
[hubble ~]$

(hubble was a 7.3 system years ago - your's should be similar. Note
that the 'DOMAINNAME' is for NFS, and _not_ for basic networking.)

>ping 192.168.1.1 gives "network unreachable. /sbin/ifconfig shows
>nothing more that the loopback

That's a good reason not to be working.

>Thanks in advance for any help in getting that EtherJet card to work
>on my system

You should note that this card is labeled "Experimental" in the
Hardware-HOWTO. It's not mentioned at all in the Ethernet-HOWTO.

Old guy

Bernard wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> I am trying to get my old Thinkpad 600 running on Linux RedHat 7.2, to
> connect to the Internet via an IBM pcmcia EtherJet card. The card does
> work on MSWIN 98 on the same system, so the hardware seems OK. My system
> RedHat 7.2 includes pcmcia functions, and my file /etc/pcmcia/config does
> include a mention of said card :
>
> card "IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus"
> manfid 0x00a4, 0x0113
> bind "tulip_cb"
>
> device "tulip_cb"
> class "network" module "cb_enabler", "tulip-cb"
>
> However, nothing works. Thereafter, here are relevant lines appearing
> in my /var/log/messages :
>
> .................
> localhost pcmcia: cardmgr[815]: watching 2 sockets
> localhost pcmcia cardmgr[815]: watching 2 sockets
> localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x130-0x137
> 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
> localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> localhost pcmcia: done.
> localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> localhost cardmgr[816]: unsupported card in socket 1
> localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
> localhost cardmgr[816]: product info: "IBM", "EtherJet PC Card", "Version
> U10", "Card Assy Part Number - 85H4801"
> localhost cardmgr[816]: manfid: 0x00a4, 0x003f, function: 6 (network)
> ....................
>
> ping 192.168.1.1 gives "network unreachable. /sbin/ifconfig shows nothing
> more that the loopback
>
> Thanks in advance for any help in getting that EtherJet card to work on my
> system
>
>
>
>

RedHat 7.x is *dead*, I say, *DEAD*. Stop wasting your time with it, it's no
longer considered secure or reliable and will not get critical updates,
especially for hardware drivers.

And if you have to use 7.x jump to 7.3.