Cathal Meehan wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone could give me a step by step guide to
> configuring a network card for RH5.0 The card in question is a PCMCIA
> 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card (Ethernet Interface). I manage
> to install RH successfully and notice that the cardmgr module is loaded
> ato boot time (I check dmesg) butr I don't know what to do next. I have
> all the necessary IP addresses but when I enter these into the netconfig
> tool there is no change. I've gone throught the PCMCIA-Howto, but it
> didn't help much. I know I should set the PCIC_OPTS line in
> /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia equal to cs_irq=11 (the irq for the card under
> Win95 is 11) is this correct ?
>
No - but you are not alone: it took me some time to recognize it myself,
when I first installed pcmcia, that "cs" means "card services" and
denotes here the PCMCIA *controller*, not the card. That is, cs_irq is
the status change irq, the irq that is used by the PCMCIA controller to
signal to the cpu that a card has been inserted or ejected. You can see
this if you are running xosview under X. Insert or eject a card and you
will see the LED of the cs_irq-th interrupt go on for a little. I use
the following parameters for PCIC_OPTS, although I don't have RedHat
(but the result should be the same), so that irq 9 is for my PCMCIA
Cirrus Logic controller and the rest is for the cards:
PCIC_OPTS="cs_irq=9 irq_list=3,9,10,11"
Try it - and rtfm the PCMCIA-HOWTO that comes with the pcmcia package
for more on cs_irq.
Good luck!
Chris
