[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or I may not see the reply > in a timely manner. Thanks!] > >I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 240. Neither >pcmcia.img nor network.img recognized my 3Com Megaherta 3CXFE575BT >10/100 PCMCIA network card, and this laptop doesn't come with a CDROM >drive (and only a few weird ones work with it) so I was forced to put >my laptop disk into my desktop, partition it, put the ISO images in a >partition, then put it back in the laptop and install from there. > >When I was done, I had no network: my PCMCIA card was not recognized, >and none of the normal networking scripts had been installed. > >This card works just fine if I boot Windows on the same machine, so it >isn't bad hardware. > WRONG!!!!
Windows drivers get written for the dodges made to cram all that hardware into that little space. There IS a hardware situation which is corrected by a software driver. Unfortunately the driver is probably secret, proprietary, etc. In any event, it is a minor miracle when the linux drivers written to standards rather than to specifics work on laptops at all. Sorry, but the attitude displayed here has really been getting to me. I fear it is a wrong conclusion derived from right information, just not enough right information. Civileme >
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