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

["Jeff Maxton" <jeff.maxton@usa.net>]

I installed RH 6.1, but for some reason it didn't detect the network card
(this was a fresh install, I didn't update the kernel or anything).  It also
set "PCMCIA=no" in the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.  In Windoze I'd try
reinstalling and see if it would detect it, but I'm trying to break that bad
habit (part of the reason I've grown to like Linux).

Any thoughts on why the install didn't detect it?  I'll take a look at that
PCMCIA HowTo and see what I can find.


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.



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