Old laptop problems

I have been trying to force an old Siemans Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 5 series to
access my network with a rtl8139 ethernet cardbus and SuSE 9.0 and 9.2.

9.2 finds the card and has no problems configuring it but freezes the
machine as it tries to access the network.

9.0 has problems, cardctl ident tells me the card is available but when I
set it up as eth0 ifconfig can't find it.

I have tried a couple of knoppix releases as well, 3.3 has no problems at
all and I can access my network and the internet with out any problems.
Knoppix 3.9 lets me set the card up but freezes the whole machine as it
tries to access any net.

I have searched and googled and have found a couple of things that looked as
if they might have helped but to no avail. This is driving me to drink, so
if anybody can help me my liver would be grateful.

Mike

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:43:47 +0000, twopinkblobs wrote:

> I have been trying to force an old Siemans Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 5 series to
> access my network with a rtl8139 ethernet cardbus and SuSE 9.0 and 9.2.
>
> 9.2 finds the card and has no problems configuring it but freezes the
> machine as it tries to access the network.
>
> 9.0 has problems, cardctl ident tells me the card is available but when I
> set it up as eth0 ifconfig can't find it.
>
> I have tried a couple of knoppix releases as well, 3.3 has no problems at
> all and I can access my network and the internet with out any problems.
> Knoppix 3.9 lets me set the card up but freezes the whole machine as it
> tries to access any net.
>
> I have searched and googled and have found a couple of things that looked as
> if they might have helped but to no avail. This is driving me to drink, so
> if anybody can help me my liver would be grateful.

Erm, I have seen problems with these cards. The standard 8139 module
often won't work. I had to download a source package and set a special
cardbus flag during the compile...



--
Mark Robinson
Novell Volunteer SysOp

One by one the penguins steal my sanity...

Mark Robinson wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:43:47 +0000, twopinkblobs wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to force an old Siemans Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 5 series
>> to access my network with a rtl8139 ethernet cardbus and SuSE 9.0 and
>> 9.2.
>>
>> 9.2 finds the card and has no problems configuring it but freezes the
>> machine as it tries to access the network.
>>
>> 9.0 has problems, cardctl ident tells me the card is available but when I
>> set it up as eth0 ifconfig can't find it.
>>
>> I have tried a couple of knoppix releases as well, 3.3 has no problems at
>> all and I can access my network and the internet with out any problems.
>> Knoppix 3.9 lets me set the card up but freezes the whole machine as it
>> tries to access any net.
>>
>> I have searched and googled and have found a couple of things that looked
>> as if they might have helped but to no avail. This is driving me to
>> drink, so if anybody can help me my liver would be grateful.
>
> Erm, I have seen problems with these cards. The standard 8139 module
> often won't work. I had to download a source package and set a special
> cardbus flag during the compile...
>
>
>
Will look into this in the morning, thank you

Mike