RE: [TCLUG:22457] Switching Ethernet Cards

["Carlos Sabo" <carlos@coffeebean.net>]

What kind of laptop do you have?  I have an IBM T20 with a Xircom 10/100
PCMCIA card.  (Seems to run hot.)  My laptop has a Mini-PCI bus too.

PCMCIA support for my Xircom is great but I've wondered what the advantages
to using a Mini-PCI NIC were... specificaly, do they draw less power?

Carlos


-----Original Message-----
From: Perry Hoekstra [mailto:dutchman@uswest.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:39 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: [TCLUG:22457] Switching Ethernet Cards


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

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