[Gloucs] Realport RBE-100 on Slackware 9.0

[Oli Restorick]

Thanks for your help.  I must admit, I looked at the IRQ0 and thought
"that's not quite right", but I've left hardware stuff to other people
for too long!

There are a few sites dedicated to the Libretto, but I haven't found
much about that card.  I've seen some people online say it doesn't work
and others who say they have got it to work (but are vague in their
descriptions of how they got it working).

As for the kernel, I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I don't know!
Whatever Slackware 9.0 comes with, but I'd have to boot up the laptop to
find out.

I'll have a fiddle with some settings, if I can, but there's precious
little to play with in the BIOS of that laptop.

Cheers

Oli

-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:gloucs-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mick Brooks
Sent: 30 July 2003 00:36
To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Realport RBE-100 on Slackware 9.0

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:47:22PM +0100, Oli Restorick wrote:
> I've just taken a look at dmesg, and it does have the line: 
> eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter rev 3 at 0x400, 00:10:A4:EB:57:E9, IRQ0 
> The fact that it's got the correct ID string and MAC address makes me
> feel enthusiastic. 

Not too enthusiastic though... IRQ0! I had that fun here last night - it
means an IRQ isn't being assigned to the card. It might be interrupt
problems or anything. Are there any sites out there about linux on your
laptop? They might have something about this.

Other than that, what kernel are you running? I was using 2.2.20 and
having this sort of trouble, but a quick switch to 2.4 series (and
the yenta_socket module rather than i82365) fixed things well enough for
me to write this.

> BTW, what's the equivalent of Windows' "ipconfig /release" and
"ipconfig
> /renew"? 
> I've just taken a look at ifconfig and tried: 
> ifconfig eth0 up 

You're on the right track...

> I was greeted with: 
> SIOCSIFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable. 

This is due to IRQ0.

> Thanks for any help or ideas you can give me.

I hope this helps,

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks@physics.ox.ac.uk

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