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

[Dave Sherman <dcsherman@uswest.net>]

Jeff,

I have recently added the exact same card as you have, to my ThinkPad running RH
6.1, and ran into the same trouble. In the pcmcia-howto, it does mention that
RedHat will default to setting pcmcia=no in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia. But even
after I changed it to "yes", I now have the same problem Jim Graham mentioned --
that Linux tries to install the pcmcia support module, seems to fail at locating
the hardware (or something), and times out eventually. I had to wait a
LOOOONNNGGG time for the timeout, though. The first couple of times, I thought
the system had locked up, and I forcibly powered down the system to reboot. :-(

Anyway, I am watching this thread with much interest, as I have not had time to
get any further than what I just described. I may just attempt what Jim did,
download, compile and reinstall the latest source.

Dave Sherman

Jeff Maxton wrote:
> 
> 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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