Re: [TCLUG:14291] PCMCIA network card on a laptop

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Jeff Maxton wrote:

> I have Toshiba Satellite Pro 425 laptop that I've successfully installed
> Linux on.  Now I've got a 3com PCMCIA network card (model 3CCFE575BT) that
> I'm trying to get working on it.  First of all I need to get the PCMCIA
> stuff working (which I'm not sure how to do).  Then I need to figure out how
> to get a driver loaded for it.
> 
> Anyone have any experience doing something like this?  Or any suggestions.

Yeah. It's pretty easy if you installed any recent Red Hat - in fact, you
don't need to do ANYthing, and it'll work out of the box.

Unless you upgrade the kernel.

You need to enable pcmcia network cards in the kernel. Where/How/Which
cards you can support depends on the kernel version. You also probably
need a new version of pcmcia-cs, which you can get at 
ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/

There's a PCMCIA-HOWTO which might help you a lot.