Hi, all --
I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 on a Toshiba satellite 1625 laptop. Feeling that I
wanted to connect it to my household LAN, I
went to my neighborhood Office Max and bought a PCMCIA Ethernet Card (the Linksys
version, which would appear to be the
common sort available). When I tried to do anything with it, I discovered that
although the signon log indicates that PCMCIA is
being turned on OK, it does not see the card, and Eth0 is not initialized. When i
called Linksys, they informed me that it would
be necessary to recompile the kernel, which I don't believe.
I assume that the Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card is common, and that it should be
recognized by Linux as being in the
machine and that it should actually work. Do any of you have these? And what did you
do to get them to work?
Thanks.
cheers,
pete
