Re: pcmcia-issues with 2.2.18 & 2.4.0

[Pau Aliagas]

On 13 Feb 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> I have a Xircom Combo CardBus (32 bit) 10/100 Ethernet Card + 56k
> Modem (didn't try the modem part) that I have not been able to run
> under 2.2.18 or 2.4.0. The weird part is that everything seems to load
> fine, and I am able to configure the card with an ip-address and
> everything. Only sad part is that I can not reach out to the world. I
> just get connection time-outs when trying to acces the 'net.

> BTW, The driver used by the card is tulip_cb, and the machine it runs
> on is a Dell Latitude CPx H500GT.

I use:
alias eth0 xircom_tulip_cb

and when this happens -90% if times when I boot and 100% of time when I
awake after a sleep- I just do the following:

ifconfig eth0 -promisc

and it works again.

Pau