Ferenc, thanks for your reply.  I will boot into Linux in a moment 
and try your suggestions, but first a couple follow up questions:

>modprobe pcmcia_core, yenta_socket(s?), ds. Then your card's module.

I think when I try this the computer cannot find pcmcia_core. I'll 
try it again, and for the yenta.  When you say 'your card's module' 
do you mean the orinoco driver I recently downloaded from 
sourceforge? Do 'driver' and 'module' mean the same thing in this 
case?

>you'll also have to look at dmesg,

Thanks, I'll see what that has to say.

>One more thing: do not try cold-plug first (the card is plugged in when you
>boot up). When you have hotplug working (boot up, and when everything is up,
>plug the card in), then you can experiment with cold-plug.

Thanks again.  I did have the card plugged in during boot up, so 
maybe that's contributing to the difficulties.

>I'm pretty sure it will be a module; the kernel isn't compiled with it. But
suse has a 2.4.16 kernel package somewhere; you might wanna download that too.

Okay. I look forward to trying to do my first kernel update and/or 
rebuild but I don't want to change too many things at once before 
clearly understanding what pieces are missing in getting this to 
work...

>  > g) Separate issue: I noticed that some inetd services are turned on
>>  (time,telnet,login,talk,ntalk,finger). Should I turn these off?
>Unless you get your network up, they don't cause too much harm:-)

Well, I can run Linux at work where the ethernet network connection 
does work. If I dont have any reasons why someone needs to get access 
to my machine, should I turn off inetd?

>Check your kernel source and see if you find the .c file there. If not, then
>you'll need a kernel that has it (or build the module yourself, and move it
>to the right location).

Sorry, I don't understand this yet. I really am a beginner. My kernel 
came from the SuSE CD.  Are you saying to get a 'fresh' 2.4.12 from 
kernel.org, or are you saying to update to 2.4.16? How do I check 
whether this .c file is part of the source?

But finally, it looks like the .c files identify the kernel modules I 
need to be concerned with?
Do all modules have the .c designation, or is this just a PCMCIA thing?

Thanks for your patience,
--Michael
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