Hello,

Need some advice how to solve this problem. The network works on 5.1.1 but does not on 5.3.1

I am using old an IBM Thinkpad with PCMCIA LAN and PCMCIA Wireless adapters. Both work fine on Windows XP. and Knoppix 5.1.1 (need ndiswrapper for wireless). In 5.1.1 the LAN connects right away after boot up. Wireless connects right away after "ifconfig wlan0 up". Never need to "pump -i ...". The IP assigned by the router.

Both wired and wireless don't work on 5.3.1.

For LAN
The LAN card was detected and lsmod shows 8139too correctly, same as 5.1.1, but the network is not connected.
- ifconfig did not show eth0. I did "ifconfig eth0 up", then it appear
Code:
root@Knoppix:/ramdisk/home/knoppix# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:d7:09:9d:ca
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:d7ff:fe09:9dca/64 Scope:Link
          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:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000
- Still not connected, so I did "pump -i eth0", wait for a while then "Operation failed". The dmesg shows
Code:
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0004 c07f media 00.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4  dirty entry 0.
eth0:  Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a05a. (queue head)
eth0:  Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a04e.
eth0:  Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a046.
eth0:  Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a05a.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 00.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4  dirty entry 0.
eth0:  Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a046. (queue head)
eth0:  Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a046.
eth0:  Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a156.
eth0:  Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a156.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

For wireless
- After I have loaded ndiswrapper, the light on the card blinked normally. ifconfig wlan0 up was successful.
Code:
root@Knoppix:/ramdisk/home/knoppix# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:d7:09:9d:ca
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:d7ff:fe09:9dca/64 Scope:Link
          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:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 B)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:e9:6c:3e:c7
          UP BROADCAST 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:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11 Memory:24000000-24020000
- Still not connected, so I did "pump -i wlan0", wait for a while then "Operation failed". The dmesg shows
Code:
ndiswrapper version 1.51 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver net5513 (D-Link,12/23/2004,1.0.0.28) loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 11
wlan0: ethernet device 00:15:e9:6c:3e:c7 using serialized NDIS driver: net5513, version: 0x10000, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 168C:0020.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

In case this relates. In 5.3.1, I need to specify cheatcode "apci=force" otherwise I will get:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 286584614 ns)
Time: pit clocksource has been installed.[/list]