[TriLUG] New PCMCIA NIC

[Justin Johnson]

>
> 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.
Thanks, I'll check this out.

>
> 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.

Here is the output from /var/log/messages when the card is inserted.

Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 21): vendor 0x1317,
device 0x1985
Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop kernel: PCI: Enabling device 15:00.0 (0000 ->
0003)
Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device
15:00.0 to 64
Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc88b7000,
00:10:7A:69:69:13, IRQ 11.
Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop cardmgr[762]: initializing socket 1
Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop cardmgr[762]: unsupported card in socket 1
Jul  2 01:59:14 LinuxLaptop cardmgr[762]:   product info: "N"

So would this indicate that the card is in fact incompatable, or is that
just due to lack of drivers?

Thanks,
Justin