> > I've recently installed RH5.0 on my Toshiba laptop. During the install,
> > the option for a Xircom PCMCIA NIC was not available, therefore I just
> > skipped installing networking. Can someone tell me what steps are
> > necessary to install this Xircom card now ? The card is a Xircom CE3
> > 10/100 NIC.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
>
> What you need is the PCMCIA package from
> ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/. Download it, untar it somewhere
> like /usr/src/pcmcia (preference), and read the included PCMCIA-HOWTO.
> It's a bit cryptic in some places, and you'll probably only need to know
> a little about your hardware. Toshibas seem to play well with Linux. If
> you need some help, feel free to ask...
>
> HTH, Matt
the problem here is that the 10/100 NIC is a cardbus card, not just s
16-bit pcmcia card. it will not work at all with RH 5.0. the pcmcia in
RH 5.1 (3.0.0) has rudimentary cardbus support, but i don't think many
cardbus cards work with it. 3.0.1 is better and i think at least the
3com 10/100 card sort of works. see
http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html for more
details.
tim
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