Xircom pcmcia ethernet adapter stopped working in Dapper

[Jussi Kukkonen]

I have a laptop with a Xircom XE2000 pcmcia ethernet adapter. The adapter has worked out-of-the-box on Warty and Hoary (with module xirc2ps_cs AFAICT).After upgrading to Dapper, the adapter stopped working.

The driver is, to my understanding, loaded; 'mii-tool' says the adapter is fine; eth0 is up and running; but no bits are moving -- pinging the router gives 'Destination Unreachable'... Also, there's nothing in 'lspci' (I don't actually know if this is bad for a pcmcia device).

I'm running 2.6.15-20-686 kernel, but I did test 2.6.12-10-686 (leftover from Breezy) briefly, and there the adapter works. I have also tested booting with various grub-incantations just in case: "acpi=off", "noapic" or pci=routeirq" had no effect.

Below is output from various commands. Please let me know if I can test this further.

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$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# The loopback network interface
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0

iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.101
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.0.1

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$ ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:B9:4E:0D
          inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4800 (4.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300

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$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

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Next is output from "sudo lshw", but I've edited out unrelated nodes
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$ sudo lshw
  *-core
     *-pci
        *-pcmcia:0
             description: CardBus bridge
             product: PCI1225
             vendor: Texas Instruments
             physical id: a
             bus info: pci@00:0a.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus
             resources: iomemory:28000000-28000fff irq:10
           *-network
                description: 10/100 Network PC Card
                product: XE2000
                vendor: Xircom
                physical id: 0
                version: 1.00
                slot: Socket 0
                resources: irq:3
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: eth0
       serial: 00:10:a4:b9:4e:0d
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=xirc2ps_cs ip=192.168.0.101 multicast=yes

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$ sudo cardctl info
PRODID_1="Xircom"
PRODID_2="10/100 Network PC Card"
PRODID_3="XE2000"
PRODID_4="1.00"
MANFID=0105,010a
FUNCID=6
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

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$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
xirc2ps_cs 21232 0
speedstep_lib 4580 0
cpufreq_userspace 6496 0
cpufreq_stats 6688 0
freq_table 4928 1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 7752 0
cpufreq_conservative 9000 0
video 16324 0
tc1100_wmi 6884 0
sony_acpi 5516 0
pcc_acpi 12416 0
hotkey 11492 0
dev_acpi 11236 0
container 4608 0
button 6704 0
acpi_sbs 20172 0
battery 9988 1 acpi_sbs
ac 5220 1 acpi_sbs
i2c_acpi_ec 5120 1 acpi_sbs
dm_mod 63256 1
md_mod 76052 0
lp 12356 0
nsc_ircc 25184 0
joydev 10432 0
irda 217916 1 nsc_ircc
tsdev 8032 0
parport_pc 37988 1
parport 39400 2 lp,parport_pc
floppy 64676 0
crc_ccitt 2240 1 irda
pcspkr 2244 0
usbhid 40992 0
pcmcia 41916 1 xirc2ps_cs
rtc 14068 0
snd_maestro3 27780 0
snd_ac97_codec 99776 1 snd_maestro3
snd_ac97_bus 2400 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 56448 0
snd_mixer_oss 20544 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 96644 3 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 26884 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11304 1 snd_pcm
psmouse 40036 0
serio_raw 7748 0
snd 60004 6
snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10784 1 snd
i2c_piix4 9168 0
yenta_socket 29548 2
rsrc_nonstatic 14624 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 45272 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core 22848 2 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_piix4
shpchp 49504 0
pci_hotplug 30788 1 shpchp
intel_agp 24700 1
agpgart 36784 1 intel_agp
evdev 10176 4
ext3 148104 1
jbd 65876 1 ext3
ide_generic 1504 0
uhci_hcd 35408 0
usbcore 137700 3 usbhid,uhci_hcd
ide_cd 35780 0
cdrom 41408 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 19200 3
piix 11652 1
generic 5124 0
thermal 13768 0
processor 26344 1 thermal
fan 4836 0
capability 4968 0
commoncap 7328 1 capability
vesafb 8636 1
fbcon 43904 72
tileblit 2784 1 fbcon
font 8320 1 fbcon
bitblit 6464 1 fbcon
softcursor 2304 1 bitblit

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$ sudo mii-tool -v
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
  product info: vendor 00:05:7d, model 0 rev 0
  basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
  basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
  capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD

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$ sudo lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
0000:00:0d.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Modem Accelerator
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM710 LynxEM (rev a3)

[Jussi Kukkonen (jku)]

that should be "worked out-of-the-box in Breezy and Hoary" -- I have not tested in Warty.

[Jussi Kukkonen (jku)]

The problem turned out to be a result of a faulty cable -- so _not_ a bug in Ubuntu. Please mark this report INVALID (or whatever is the equivalent in launchpad).

Sorry for the trouble, and a big thanks for a great OS.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Faulty cable