PCMCIA?

[Darius X. Desiderio]

Hi!    I am new to Linux... and I have a problem ;)   After {re}installing Win98 on /hda1/ and making the appropriate changes to LILO, I noticed a conspicuous lack of audible bells during Linux boot. And, not surprisingly ppp0 was unresponsive, although '/sbin/ifup ppp0' does create a pid which '/sbin/ifdown ppp0' can kill.   I suspected that it may have been an interrupt problem only because I have been tooling around with sndconfig and conf.modules ( BTW anyone have advice for SOLO 2500 with NeoMagic MagicWave 3Dx), but stopping sound and removing all sound entries from conf.modules had no effect.    Pppd manages to initialize the modem( as root in X) , but then.... nothing.   The Xircom creditcard CM56T was automatically detected when I installed RH6.0 at the end of January and has never been a problem. It works fine from Win98 ( I would not be able to post this otherwise).   I'm forgetting something, well anyway .... Basic problem: no response from modem   Is it a PCMCIA problem and did the Winstall98 have _anything_ to do with it?       thanks -dxd EOF