Switching Ethernet Cards

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

Greet the sun all:

My laptop, up to a week ago, was running a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA card.
Now I have a Intel Etherexpress Pro 100/B, 10/100 MBit/s autosensing
chip on the Mini-PCI bus, and it works (according to various sources)
with the standard Intel driver.  I don't have something like kudzu to
autodetect a hardware change (running Debian), so how do I get it to
recognize the new lan chip?  From some searching, I understand that the
Intel EE Pro is support by the current 2.2.1* kernel. I did an ifconfig
and it lists a tap0 along with lo but no eth0.  Is cardmgr waiting for
me to insert a new PCMCIA card in order to supply networking and
prevents any type of detection of the Intel card on the PCI bus?

Thank you,

-- 
Perry Hoekstra
E-Commerce Architect
Talent Software Services
dutchman@mn.uswest.net