I bought a NetGear FA410TXC for about $70 at Circuit City because it
was on the list of supported PCMCIA cards on the internet Linux laptop
page.  Unfortunately, it was not yet supported when the pcmcia modules
that ship with RedHat 5.1 came out.  But fortunately it wasn't hard to
get it working -- according to SUPPORTED.CARDS on the internet, it
uses a driver I have (pcnet_cs) so I just looked at the error message
in /var/log/messages cardmgr gave me when I inserted the card, and
added the following to /etc/pcmcia/config:

Card "NETGEAR FA410TXC Fast Ethernet"
  version "NETGEAR", "FA410TXC", "Fast Ethernet"
  bind "pcnet_cs"

Then I sent the cardmgr process a HUP (for some reason the PID in
/var/run/cardmgr.pid was inaccurate) and reinserted the card.  Now
cardmgr recognizes the card and loads the correct driver.  The card
has been working great, although I have it only on a 10BASE-T network
so far (upgrading to 100BASE-T after the new year, I hear...)

Bob

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