Laptop 600e Breezy Badger

[Terrance Louden]

After /sbin/iwconfig i get

lo     no wireless extensions.
sit0   no wireless extensions.
eth0   no wireless extensions.


FYI: The Netgear Fa511 is not a wireless card. It is a wired ethernet
card.


After sudo cardctl info

PERIOD_1=" "
PERIOD_2=" "
PERIOD_3=" "
PERIOD_4=" "
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PERIOD_1=" "
PERIOD_2=" "
PERIOD_3=" "
PERIOD_4=" "
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255



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#::  Following is output information that I posted
#::  to ubuntu forums with output and debug message 
#::  information
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#::  it can be found here
#::http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=125763&highlight=fa511


/var/log/messages
PCI: enabling devica 0000:06:00.0 ( 0000 -> 0003 )
tulip1: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7849 advertising 05e1
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 00014800, 00:0F:B5:8E:38:2C, IRQ 11
tulip already loaded

lsmod | grep pcmcia
pcmcia 24584 4
pcmcia_core 44932 3 pcmcia, yenta_socket, rsrc_nonstatic

lsmod | grep tulip
tulip 45088 0

ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:ethernet hwaddr 00:0F:B5:8E:38:2C
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt: 11 Base address:0x4800

sudo ifdown eth0
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifcofig eth0 up

/var/log/messages
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link atner capability of 45e1

sudo ifup eth0
Ignoring unknown interface eth0 = eth0


sudo cardinfo
<<tells me that socket 1 and socket 0 are empty even though the card is
currently in the pcmcia slot>>

lspci <<lines related to network>>
Ethernet controller: Linksys 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet
(rev 11)

sudo dhclient eth0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with id 7848
killed old client process, removed PID file.
Internet Systems consortium DHCP client V3.0.2
Coppyright 2004 Internet systems consortium.
All rights reseved. 
For info ...

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:8e:38:2c
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:8e:38:2c
sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 inteval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

my current boot options include acpi=off pnpbios=off apm=off . This is
from trying to get a different ethernet card to work





On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 06:53 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Terrance Louden wrote:
> > Any Ideas why it would recognize it on the Live CD and not the Install?
> > The only difference that I notice is that on the Live CD, the PCMCIA
> > gets IRQ:11, while on the Install it gets IRQ:10.
> 
> Sounds like it's recognised, but maybe something like the 'essid' hasn't
> been setup correctly (It won't automatically prompt for these).  Try:
> 
>   /sbin/iwconfig
>   sudo cardctl info
> 
> and friends will give you more information.
> 
> 	-Paul
> -- 
> Britain is just cold, in a pesky way.  London, GB
> 
>