Bug 37619

Summary: xircom cardbus broken in 2.2.19-6.2.1
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: William Sudderth <whsudder>
Component: kernel-pcmcia-csAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 6.2CC: adi
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Description William Sudderth 2001-04-25 15:24:53 UTC 
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IBM 10/100 Etherjet CardBus adapter is detected at boot, but cannot 
establish a network connection; worked in previous kernel release

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Boot to stock 2.2.19-6.2.1 kernel and pcmcia-cs


Actual Results:  System cannot establish a TCP/IP connection

Expected Results:  System should have established a TCP/IP connection

Network is DHCP-only; cannot test whether it would work if I had a static 
IP.  Machine is a stock ThinkPad 600E.

I took a look at Kernel Traffic and the linux-kernel archive and it 
appears to this newbie that there is work going on in the 2.4 tree to 
correct the problem; I hope it will filter down to the 2.2.x kernel, RH 
6.2 level.

I'll attach relevant portions of /var/log/messages.
Comment 1 William Sudderth 2001-04-25 15:28:41 UTC 
Created attachment 16386 [details]
excerpts from /var/log/messages
Comment 2 adi 2001-05-23 16:16:49 UTC 
I have the same problem.  I have a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card.  It is
detected when pcmcia cardmgr starts (emits two beeps to indicate success), but
it cannot establish a network connection, though ifconfig shows eth0 as up, no
packets can get in or out.  I am using a static IP configuration.  Everything
worked fine before I upgraded to kernel-2.2.19-6.2.1.  All previous kernel RPMs
for 6.2 work fine.
Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-06-27 09:18:52 UTC 
A new 2.2.19 kernel has been released yesterday that has the old xircom driver
back in. If this does not fix it, please reopen this bug.