Those cards have trouble with auto sencing. What you need to do is tell
the card whether you have a 10 or 100 base link. I have not used mine in a
while but it should be:

ifconfig xi0 media 100baseTX
or
ifconfig xi0 media 10baseT

then dhclient should work. Hope that helps.

-Mikel


On Tue, 11 May 2004, Rick Soth wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed a basic 1.6.2 on my Mobilepro 780 consisting of the
> generic kernel, base, and etc only. Can't seem to add more with only 256 CF
> card. Anyway, trying to get my Xircom CreditCard NIC to work, and am having
> trouble.
>
> When I run dmesg the card is "seen", but I'm a bit concerned as it
> indicates IRQ 3 on the screen and I read that it wants IRQ, and I don't see
> how to fix this?
>
> Using ifconfig I have played with setting ip, gateway, etc. information. I
> try running dhclient, and that doesn't do anything even through I'm
> connected to my DHCP home network/cable modem (belkin) product correctly I
> think.
>
> What am I doing wrong, other than never having tried anything like this
> before. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Rick Soth
>
>

-Mikel