I have a linksys 10/100 pcmcia card on my laptop and it works fine - sounds
like user error to me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Latham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 4:25 AM
Subject: [newbie] PCMCIA CARD
> I'm sorry to hear that you got suckered into buying a linksys card. These
> guys are ripoffs. I posted a long warning to everyone about a month ago
> about them and their pc cards.
>
> LINKSYS DOES NOT SUPPORT LINUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are just trying to
> make money off of some other persons hard work. Hoping someone else has
> written a driver for the card.
>
> At least you got an answer back from them .. when I sent in a msg about my
> card and linux it took a week for them to send me a msg back telling me
> they don't support Linux.
>
> You are correct in assuming they are wrong about re-compiling the
kernel...
> here's what I had to do to get the card to work on my Dell laptop.
>
> Make sure networking is turned on.
> Reboot
> Go into your bios and turn off your serial ports ( most important
> part!!..don't set to auto or any other choice you might be offered... turn
> them off.)
> Linux should detect your card now ... Good Luck
>
>
> Jay
>
