[TriLUG] New PCMCIA NIC

[Brian Weaver]

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 15:36, Chris Knowles wrote:
> 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.

If Justin is correct, in that his 802.11b PCMCIA card works, then I
seriously doubt that the Laptop's cardbus is the issue. Have you tried
the disfunctional card in another laptop to verify that it works? I
would be surprised if the 802.11b card was not a 32-bit card. The 3COM I
don't really know about.

If you cannot verify the fact that the card works somewhere else then it
will always be suspect. If you 802.11b card works in the laptop and the
3Com card doesn't work in the SAME SLOT then you might have a bad
card.... Just a thought.

Also you might want to read the documentation on cardmgr(8) and
cardctl(8). Also, if you look in /etc/init.d/pcmcia you'll find the
location of the config file if you need to look at them.

- Weave


> 
> 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)
> > 
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