[TriLUG] good pcmcia card
Tanner Lovelace
lovelace at wayfarer.org
Tue Jun 4 14:26:37 EDT 2002
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 13:22, Jim wrote:
> Trying to install a Netgear FA511 and it's just not happy. Previously
> I had a 3Com card in that was working fine - I just got tired of
> dragging the dongle everywhere.
>
> Digging around the google groups I see several posts regarding
> problems getting this card to work properly - so I'm considering
> taking it back and getting something else.
I am using a Netgear FA511a PCMCIA card and it works extremely well.
The only problems I've had are remembering that I need to do
"cardctl eject" before taking it out (cardbus on linux apparently
doesn't like being just pulled out). Other than that, it works
extremely well.
It uses the tulip network driver. Here is the output from
lspci -v
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 511a
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at 10400000 [size=128K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Ignore the line that says Linksys and notice that on the
next line it does say it is a Netgear 511a.
And here is my output from lsmod (note this contains many more
modules that have nothing to do with the network...)
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nfs 75388 9 (autoclean)
lockd 49344 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 62964 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
sg 30180 0 (autoclean) (unused)
st 27316 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 92488 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod]
autofs4 9252 2 (autoclean)
irtty 5920 2 (autoclean)
irda 90508 1 (autoclean) [irtty]
nm256_audio 67188 1
sound 57292 1 [nm256_audio]
soundcore 4068 5 [sound]
ac97 3344 0 [nm256_audio]
tulip 40416 1
ds 6848 2
yenta_socket 9344 2
pcmcia_core 41824 0 [ds yenta_socket]
af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused)
usbcore 59072 1 [usb-uhci]
nls_iso8859-1 2816 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 3584 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9788 1 (autoclean)
fat 31384 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 62180 2 (autoclean)
rtc 5912 0 (autoclean)
xfs 502168 6
xfs_dmapi 34364 0 [xfs]
xfs_support 9208 0 [xfs xfs_dmapi]
My /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file contains:
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=yenta_socket
Also, make sure you have the latest version of the driver
from http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. Apparently,
there's a bit of a schism between Linus and Donald Becker
(who wrote the driver) and the latest versions have not
been going into the kernel tree.
If I think of anything else, I'll post it, but the card
works very well, at least for me.
Tanner
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