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on 2/18/06 2:45 AM, Daniel Gimpelevich at daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000098">> It says somewhere that the PC Card setting in your BIOS should not be set<BR>
> to Auto. PCIC has been the most Linux-compatible setting in the past, but<BR>
> is not compatible with your card, which leaves the third setting, CardBus,<BR>
> as your only viable option. <BR>
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</FONT>OK, Checked that in BIOS and changed it to Cardbus.<BR>
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> Also, any option in the BIOS labeled either<BR>
> "Plug & Play OS" or "Windows 9x Support" MUST be set to No. This option<BR>
> may also take the form of a 3-way toggle between certain old OSes that may<BR>
> be labeled practically anything. Make sure you do not choose DOS or OS/2.<BR>
> Whatever form this option takes, changing its setting may or may not<BR>
> require a complete reformat of the hard disk, because sometimes it<BR>
> controls not only card interrupts, but also hard disk address translation.<BR>
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</FONT>Checked and there is no option in BIOS for ‘Plug & Play OS’ or ‘Windows 9x Support’.<BR>
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> Once you have taken care of those things, and perhaps also other possibly<BR>
> highly inadvisable settings in your BIOS, do the cardctl ident again, to<BR>
> make sure the card is seen. If so, check to see whether the system can see<BR>
> the eth0 interface with the "ifconfig -a" command. <BR>
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</FONT>Checked ‘cardctl ident’ again and card is seen.<BR>
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Checked ifconfig –a and it lists the eth0 interface. <BR>
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It shows ‘0’ for packets, errors, dropped, overruns, frame, etc....Txqueuelen: 1000, Interrupt:11, Base address: 0x4000<BR>
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Is that the results you want to see if it’s working properly?<BR>
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> If not, check to see<BR>
> whether the 8139too driver is loaded with the lsmod command. The lsmod<BR>
> command will only show loaded drivers compiled as modules, as opposed to<BR>
> drivers compiled directly into the kernel, which are always loaded. If<BR>
> lsmod doesn't list 8139too, try to load it manually with the modprobe<BR>
> command. This will fail if the driver is either compiled directly into the<BR>
> kernel, or not at all. Upon success, check "ifconfig -a" again.<BR>
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</FONT> lsmod shows:<BR>
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Module Size Used by Not Tainted<BR>
8139too 12328 0 (unused) <BR>
crc32 2848 0 [8139too]<BR>
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Plus lots of others.....<BR>
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Any other advice to get connected to internet?<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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Mark<BR>
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> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:30:31 -0800, Mark Srebnik wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#006600">>> Making progress, Daniel!<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Did that and rebooted and now my card indicator lights light up!<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Did 'cardctl ident' and got:<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Socket 0:<BR>
>> product info: "D-Link", "DFE690TXD", "PC Card"<BR>
>> manfid: 0x0149, 0x0000<BR>
>> function: 6 (network)<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Where do I go now to set up my connection to my network and test to see if I<BR>
>> can get online?<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Thanks,<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Mark<BR>
>> <BR>
>> on 2/17/06 8:45 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich at<BR>
>> daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:<BR>
>> <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#980000">>>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:11:56 -0800, Mark Srebnik wrote:<BR>
>>> <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#660098">>>>> Since I installed with 'pci=off' what is simple way to turn it back on?<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#980000">>>> <BR>
>>> If you're using grub, just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly.<BR>
>>> <BR>
>>> If you're using lilo, edit /etc/lilo.conf and run "lilo -v" afterward.<BR>
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