[TriLUG] frustration with network install (laptop)

[Andrew Perrin]

Hey all-

On advice from people here, I bought an IBM thinkpad 240, which I intend
to use mainly to make classroom presentations via LCD projector. I also
have an SMC CardBus EZCard 10/100 ethernet adapter, which I hope(d) to use
to install debian on the machine.  That's where I'm getting stuck, and
wondering if anyone can offer advice.

It appears from the 'net as if this card uses the tulip driver, which
under 2.2.x kernels would be tulip_cb and cb_enabler, or under 2.4.x would
just be tulip.

I have both woody (stable) and sarge (testing) boot floppies at the ready.
If I boot to the sarge disks (my preference), pcmcia starts and the LED's
on the network card blink satisfyingly. But nothing happens network-wise;
ifconfig reports only lo, and ifconfig eth0 up gives "SIOCGIFFLAGS: No
such device".  Manually loading tulip gives "Unresolved symbol
bitreverse_Rbaeb160c" and "Unresolved symbol crc32_le_Ra34f1ef5".

If I boot to the woody disks, pcmcia starts and I can (manually, from a
shell) insmod cb_enabler and tulip_cb. Again, the LED's blink
satisfyingly. But eth0 does not come up, and so again I am left without a
network.

Any advice will be most welcome!

Thanks,
Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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