Xircom pcmcia CEM56 eth/modem combo works on thinkpad 390 but not 600

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Mon Oct 10 16:48:00 EDT 2005


These machines are similar (P2, 266 to 300MHz), running 
2.6.13 and pcmciautils 005 or 010 (both same result)

The Xircom card is recognised, and will dhcp and phone out 
on the 390, but not on the 600. This is with the same 
harddisk being moved from one machine to the other and then 
rebooting, so presumably the problem is not due to the wrong 
software on one machine.

On the Thinkpad 600E I can't get the modem part to dial, and 
the ethernet part doesn't get a reply from dhcp. I can put 
an IP on the card with ifconfig, but the card doesn't get 
any replies to pings (I don't know if they're even sent 
out).

Both machines work OK with cardbus ethernet and wifi cards
and a pcmcia wifi card. Both are loading the Yenta driver.

Here's lspci for both machines.

Thinkpad 390E which works fine with Xircom pcmcia card

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:02.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:02.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:02.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251A (rev 01)
00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251A (rev 01)
00:06.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01)
00:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20)


Thinkpad 600E which doesn't work with Xircom pcmcia card

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251A
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1251A
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20)

Any ideas anyone?

thanks Joe


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