Hi Daryl, First, I ask you to not post in html as many mail readers in use on this list do not handle it well, thanks. (You will also probably get more responses :-)) Now on to your issues. How is your network being initialized? My guess is that it is not using /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You are correct in assuming the failure to initialize eth0 comes from pcmcia not being running at the time. I suggest using the normal process (I am unfamiliar with RedHat's setup tools as I'm not running that distro) to setup the loopback interface (IP 127.0.0.1) and using your favorite text editor to make the necessary alterations to /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. As to the X problem, are you booting to X or to a text console? Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Daryl Manning [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 7:41 AM > > 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. > > > _____________________ > Daryl Manning > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
