Hello Folks; Last night I downloaded and installed the Mepis 3.3 testing 3 cd on my old Armada M700 laptop. The first time through the installation run the system hung during package installation requiring a hard boot. Second time through, everything went smoothly.
So far, the only problem I've found was my Linksys Network Everywhere NP100 pcmcia ethernet card wasn't properly configured. The pcnet_cs module was loaded for the card instead of the axnet_cs modles which is the correct one. Which of course prevented network access. The boot messages displayed the correct name, modprobe pcnet_cs, a message saying that axnet_cs should be used instead (but wasn't loaded). While looking at the etc/pcmcia/cofig file, I found found this: card "Linksys NP100 Network Everywhere Ethernet" version "Network Everywhere", "*", "*", "AX88190" #manfid 0x0149, 0xc1ab bind "axnet_cs" card "LinkSys Network Everywhere NP100" version "Network Everywhere", "Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card" #manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab bind "pcnet_cs" I edited the second entry, which matches the displayed name of the card in the Information Center as well as the boot messages, to read : card "LinkSys Network Everywhere NP100" version "Network Everywhere", "Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card" #manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab bind "axnet_cs" Now my network connection is working fine. Not a major problem but could be frustrating for a linux newbie who expects his/her hardware to be detected and configured automatically. -- Mason Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. _______________________________________________ Dev-mepis mailing list [email protected] http://mepis.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-mepis_mepis.org
