Re: xircom nic itch (drops ip)

[Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org>]

Hi Ion,

Thanks for the answer :)

* Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu> spake thus:
> > My pcmcia network card drops its ip from time to time. This happens
[...]
> Are you using dhcp on that interface? If so, what happens to the dhcp 
> client daemon when the interface 'loses' the ip? Is it logging anything?
> Is it dying?
> 
> If you're not using dhcp, I'm a little stumped..

I am using dhcp from time to time, but the card drops its ip when it is
allocated statically as well :(

However, it *does* seem to drop its ip more frequently if I am using
dhcp, or between usage of  dhcp and a reboot (I normally just use
suspend) so this might be the case. I will monitor this a bit closer...

> > The card is a Xircom Cardbus 10/100 NIC (CBEM56G-100), and it use the
> > kernel's xircom_cb module. I used to use the module in the pcmcia_cs
> > package before, but I can't remember whether it was any better then (I
> > don't think it was though).
> 
> You could try to use the xircom_tulip_cb module instead, and see if it
> solves the problem. I don't think it will, but who knows.

Can't seem to load that module I'm afraid.. 

> Despite what Configure.help says, xircom_tulip_cb is actually better
> than xircom_cb. The latter should only be used if xircom_tulip_cb
> has problems -- I haven't heard of any recently, but I do want to hear
> about them if they still exist.

Thank you very much for your help anyway.

Stig
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