How Do I Connect to Ethernet?

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Laptop: Thinkpad T21
Specs: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T21

I am trying to just get and Ethernet connection going for some good old wired Internet and that doesn’t seem to work. All I have on this laptop are two PCMCIA slots and a USB 1.0 port … I have a CD ROM drive if I need to burn something onto a disk to install an Ethernet driver… Any ideas on what I can do?

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If it isn’t automatically recognized, then almost no chance.
Have you checked the Network preflet?

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Where can I find that? What does it do? I found some network settings app that only shows whether to turn off and on Telnet, etc.

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Thats the preflet. On the left side it should be a list with all the available network interface (WLAN/wired). If there is none, then… yeah… no compatible hardware found.

Afaik the wired ethernet interface located on a PCMCIA card, right?

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Unfortunately, no. The Ethernet port is not PCMCIA. Its on the laptop itself. Are there any PCMCIA ethernet cards that WILL work?

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I thought it is PCMCIA and that’s why it doesn’t works.
Can you give us an “lspci -nn” output?

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… After typing “lspci -nn” via the Terminal, the following message appears, “bash: lspci: command not found”.

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Under Haiku the correct command is “listdev”.

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Here is the output of listdev from my Thinkpad T21

Thinkpad T21 “listdev” Output Photo

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Your device should be handled by the “3com” driver, based on FreeBSD’s “xl” driver (which is still using FreeBSD 9 sources, but this shouldn’t be a problem).

Does anything show at all in ls /dev/net ?

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After typing ln /dev/net into the Terminal, the directory turns up empty.

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… Any insight on what I can do next to get my Ethernet working? Shall I log a report? Where?

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Yes, create a ticket over https://dev.haiku-os.org and attach your syslog there. See https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/ReportingBugs

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How do I find this syslog?

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See provided link on how to find it.

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The syslog can be found at:
/boot/system/var/log/syslog

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Here is my syslog via pastebin … Is this useful?

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Since this is not a bug tracker, you need to create a ticket for that issue and attach syslog there.

KERN: [3com] (xl) bus_alloc_resource(3, [20], 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x1,0x2)
KERN: [3com] (xl) using memory mapped I/O
KERN: [3com] (xl) bus_alloc_resource(3, [24], 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x1,0x2)
KERN: [3com] (xl) bus_alloc_resource(1, [0], 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x1,0x6)
KERN: [3com] 3com: /dev/net/3com/0
KERN: [3com] (xl) reset didn't complete
KERN: [3com] (xl) eeprom failed to come ready
KERN: [3com] (xl) failed to read station address
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Yes, of course. I let that detail slip. Thanks.

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If there is a problem with Haiku and your ethernet card, you might be able to try a USB ethernet adapter.