On Sun, 21 May 2000, Pete Clapham wrote:
> 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
For what it's worth....I have a Linksys ISA card and had to use the utility
that came with it to turn off PNP and set the irq and i/o. Don't know if this
applies to PCMCIA or not, I can't even spell PCMCIA! Tom
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