I ran into a rather weird problem with my network card, this is a pcmcia card plugged into an old laptop. For some reason when I start, and stop the pcmcia service my card is no longer recognized. It seems that it is trying to connect, but I get no green light.
I even reboot and it is still the same problem, except I get a /lib/modules/sony module error that mentions the module is not loaded. Before this the laptop had an uptime of 58 days, which I use to crunch RC5-72. Even before I had to reboot, the green led on the card was green buy no network activity. I even did a fsck of the harddrive to see if something was not right. Everything came up clean. It seems that I am having a gremlin, which might be hardware related. It seems that the card wants to come up I see activity on the card but for some reason it's not doing the job. The behavior is he same regardless of which pcmcia slot I use. Has anyone had this sort of problem, it acts like a software problem but the fsck comes up clean. I did an apt-get update about a week ago everything was working fine. I am expecting a hardware failure on this notebook, as it getting around 5 years old, and is on 24/7 but it works. So if I have a component failure, like a harddrive I probably will not fix it as it would cost more for the component then the worth of the notebook. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]