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OK, have *finally* got Red Hat to recognize the 3c575 card by downloading
new drivers from Dell and then recompiling the PCMCIA module to 3.wahtever.9.
Using a Dell Inspiron 3700 laptop with a 3CCFE575CT-D 3Com575 PCMCIA card.
*Now* I can get the Internet going, but only *this* way.
On boot up, I still get the eth0 initialization failure (I assume because
PCMCIA services aren't loaded)
I manually go into Linuxconf and hit accept on the preselected settings
(which were correctly set up from boot up). This reinitializes the network
restart.
After this, I am unable to launch things in the Desktop XServer (Gnome or
KDE) and when I log out I get what I can only describe as a Grey Screen of
Death.
I switch to the Ctrl-Alt-F1 virtual console and log in again either as root
or user.
Then kill the running XServer or use a user account). Restart XServer with
StartX.
This then gives me continued Internet access on the box and other machines
can get to me by IP address.
Obviously, this is kludgy. All I want to be able to do is make sure the
damn thing has network access when it boots up. Can someone give me an idea of
what I'm doing wrong here? I looked at the startup scripts and couldn't figure
it out, so I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Daryl.
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