[TriLUG] New PCMCIA NIC

[Chris Knowles]

I'm going to ignore 1, as my knowledge of the GUI tools is almost
non-existent.  The www.tldp.org network HOWTO is real handy for setting
up networks.

Re 2) get on a root, do 'tail -f /var/log/messages' without the quotes,
and insert the NIC.  You should see some messages.  (Assuming that the
PCMCIA services are running, which assuming your old card is working is
true.)  But I've never seen messages get added here without a beep or a
boop.  I'm thinking that your card isn't compatible with your laptop. 
(Some laptops require that 32 bit cardbus cards can only be inserted
into a certain socket.)  or your pcmcia slot isn't working.

HTH.

CJK
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 14:59, Justin Johnson wrote:
> I am in the process of swapping out NICs in a laptop here at work. I have a
> 3Com Megahertz 10/100 Lan CardBus PCMCIA NIC that I want to install. I know
> (GUI based anyway) where to go add the new hardware and set up the device
> and what not, but there are a couple of things that are stumping me.
> 
> 1.) When I add the new card, I get a limited list of drivers available, none
> of which mach my card. I checked the RedHat HCL, which says that the drivers
> for this card are available on RH install cd. Great. Where? Which package?
> I've been searching Google trying to find out, but all I keep getting is
> (paraphrase)" Installing [distro] Linux on [laptop model] with
> [aforementioned] NIC" type hits.  I'm after the "add new NIC, make new NIC
> work, make old NIC go away" scenario.
> 
> 2.) I am not getting any insert or removal notifications from the PCMCIA
> card slot when I insert or remove the card. Should I be? I wouldn't expect
> the card to work until I resolve [1] but shouldn't I at least get
> notification beeps when a card is added / removed?
> 
> Sorry to ask such an dumb question, but I'm fairly frustrated having been
> reminded how much I don't know how to do in Linux. This is a <5 minute
> exercise in Windows for me. Not counting the reboot anyway ;-)
> 
> TIA,
> Justin
> 
> BTW - Toshiba Tecra 8000 running RHL7.2. Card being removed is Linksys
> 802.11b running WLAN drivers (works)
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TriLUG mailing list
>     http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ:
>     http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html