# 2. Maybe the Toshiba can't handle a 10/100 NIC/Modem card since it's # old and a 486sx after all.
Don't know # 3. Maybe I need to reinstall Debian with the NIC/Modem in the slot # rather than the 10Mbps NIC so the installation will detect it and # install around it. No, when pcmcia works fine, you can put in and take out cards whenever you like. If a card is recognized, it says high-beep, high-beep. If not, it say high-beep, low-beep (or just low-beep, apparently, sometimes). I haven't had pcmcia problems recently, so I more or less forgot what the possible problems can be. Is the other laptop a linux machine too? Does the card work with a linux machine? One possibility is that the card is unsupported : there should be a list of supported cards amongst the files provided by the pcmcia package. Check in (somewhere like) /var/lib/dpkg/info/- pcmciaXYZ.list for a file named /ABC/DEF/supported.cards, and in that last file, for the name of your card. Other possibility you don't have the kernel module needed for that card : if I get it correctly, when you put in a card, the card manager (cardmgr?) loads the kernel modules that are needed to drive that card. You probably have the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules debian packages installed. Does the later's version match the linux kernel's version? My source of information : the pcmcia-howto, which you can probably find at http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html. Good luck Etienne
