Earlier I posted some specifics of my problem, which can be searched under the Subject: "Need experienced advice on putting MDK on a Dell Inspiron 4000".
After thoroughly reading PCMCIA-HOWTO, many hours of configuring, even bugging the generous David Hinds, I cannot come up with a sure answer as to why I cannot get MDK 9.0 to recognize and configure my SMC EZ Card 10/100 Mbps PC Card NIC. Mr. Hinds insists that support is already built into the version of 'pcmcia-cs' used in MDK 9.0, yet the card is at best recognized as 'unsupported card' when 'cardmgr' reads it on boot-up. Additonally, I would like to know how you went about to getting the statis IP addressing of your laptop accomplished. Doing so in MCC or linuxconf is impossible if it doesn't list your particular device, and I am told not the proper place to add this configure for a PCMCIA NIC. Adding network information into '/etc/pcmcia/config' has not helped, though. 'hosts' and 'resolv.conf' are set-up properly. Searches on the Web for anyone having done this under MDK 9.0 and with my NIC have been fruitless. SMC tech support only states that the driver source code to compile a new module are designed to meet Red Hat standards, and have not been tested on any other platform. Previous compiling would not work. Mr. Hinds states that the drivers on MDK 9.0 are actually newer than what is available from SMC or the sunsite mirror. This NIC is fairly new and has worked flawlessly under its previous environment, Win 2K.It goes against my grain to go out and buy another NIC, especially when this one works and if its a config problem, not a compatibility one. I would appreciate a reply from anyone with experience in setting up 'pcmcia-cs' on their laptop using MDK 9.0, and especially anyone familiar with this particular NIC. Contact me here,or at my email address directly. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. This is becoming a real hair puller. -- Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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