Xircom Credit Card Ethernet CEM56-100 : xe

[Shahab Sanjari]

Hello,

I am sorry for the long delay in reply.
Here is the result of setting the debug outputs of your recent patch to xe
driver
to verbose mode and recompiling it under 5.1 release with OLDCARD.
The first section is with pccard.conf set to ethernet and the second one
with modem configuration.
No success in ethernet mode, but inspite of the errors, the modem works
ok.
I booted with 4.8 CD (only booted, not installed) and the xe was
recognized autimatically
as a network interface, what I actually dreamt of under 5.1 !

I hope this gives you a clue.
Regards,
Shahab.


** SECTION ONE **

Oct 12 15:13:41  pccardd[175]: Card "Xircom"("CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 +
Modem 56") [CEM56] [1.00] matched "Xircom" ("CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 +
Modem 56") [(null)]
Oct 12 15:13:46  kernel: xe0: pccard_probe
Oct 12 15:13:46  kernel: xe0: vendor = 0x0105
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: product = 0x110a
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: prodext = 0x46
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: vendor_str = Xircom
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: product_str = CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 +
Modem 56
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: cis3_str = CEM56
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: cis4_str = 1.00
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0 at port 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: pccard_attach
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: activate
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: xe0: Cannot allocate ioport
Oct 12 15:13:47  kernel: device_probe_and_attach: xe0 attach returned 12
Oct 12 15:13:46  pccardd[175]: driver allocation failed for
Xircom(CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56): Cannot allocate memory


** SECTION TWO **


Oct 12 15:15:36  pccardd[175]: Card "Xircom"("CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 +
Modem 56") [CEM56] [1.00] matched "Xircom" ("CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 +
Modem 56") [(null)]
Oct 12 15:15:41  kernel: sio4 at port 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0
Oct 12 15:15:41  kernel: sio4: type 16550A
Oct 12 15:15:41  kernel: sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode -
using normal mode
Oct 12 15:15:41  pccardd[175]: sio4: Xircom (CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 +
Modem 56) inserted.
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: sio4: not found
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient:
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: If you did not get this software from
ftp.isc.org, please
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install
that before
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: requesting help.
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient:
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org
and have not
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: yet read the README, please read it before
requesting help.
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: If you intend to request help from the
dhcp-server at isc.org
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: mailing list, please read the section on the
README about
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient:
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: Please do not under any circumstances send
requests for
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: help directly to the authors of this software -
please
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: send them to the appropriate mailing list as
described in
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: the README file.
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient:
Oct 12 15:15:47  dhclient: exiting.
Oct 12 15:15:47  pccardd[175]: pccardd started






On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:45:22PM +0200, Shahab Sanjari wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I recompiled the kernel with OLDCARD. and got the modem part working!
> > For this, I enabled the Modem and disabled the network in the pccard.conf.
> > I could communicate with modem useing ppp (recognized as cuaa4).
> > After that, I disabled the modem and enable the xe.
> > Still I don't have a network interface for ifconfig.
> > I enabled the pccardd at the bootup. It plays a melody and  says:
> >
> > pccardd[172]: Card "Xircom"("CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56")
> > [CEM56] [1.00] matched "Xircom" ("CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56")
> > [null] [null]
> >
> > pccard0: Assigning xe0: io 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 flas 0x0
> >
> > pccard[172]: driver allocation failed for Xircom(CreditCard Ethernet
> > 10/100 + Modem 56): Device not configured
>
> OK, how about we turn on some debug output and see what's going on here.
> On line 187 of if_xe.c and line 61 of if_xe_pccard.c (both in /sys/dev/xe),
> change
>
>         #define XE_DEBUG 0
>
> to
>
>         #define XE_DEBUG 2
>
> then recompile and reinstall your kernel/modules as usual.  The driver
> should now spit out a lot of debug information when the card is attached,
> I'll be interested to see exactly what it's doing.  The debug messages
> should also end up in /var/log/messages, so you can easily extract and
> email them.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>         Scott
>
>
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