Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:29:33 -0800
From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[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.
Um...
Do you fail to understand that there are numerous reports that
pcmcia-cs should, and has, worked with this card in other people's
machines? This strongly implies that it should have worked for
mine---and demonstrating correct operation under Windows therefore
removes one possibility, namely that either the laptop or the card
is somehow defective compared to others of the same model.
Perhaps you might want to do some research first, such as checking
the "supported cards" section of the PCMCIA HOWTO in the pcmcia-cs
release. Failure to do so means that you don't understand the point
I'm trying to make, and flaming me out of ignorance is not a helpful
response. If you -don't- want to do the research first, but don't
understand what's going on, then perhaps keeping silent would be the
most effective strategy, so as not to drown out others' attempts to
be constructive.
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