Re: xircom_cb and promiscious mode

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:34:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:47:03AM -0500, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:26:28 +0100, Marc Haber <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > I am quite interested in the problems that arise with the xircom
> > > cardbus ethernet cards, since I have difficulties with them as well.
> > > However, my problems are not solved by setting promisc mode.
> > 
> > Indeed, this sounds like a very different problem.
> 
> :-(

> I cannot rule out that my notebook is broken, Chicony has a history of
> making abysmally bad hardware, and the machine is about two years old.
> I don't have a reference notebook that has Linux installed and can do
> Cardbus to cross-check, sorry.

I now have to confitm that my notebook is broken. The card works fine
even with the stock kernel driver in an HP OmniBook, so it must be the
notebook at fault :-(

Thanks for your assistance and the good work regarding the Linux
kernel, I really appreciate that.

Greetings
Marc

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