HD Install :: getting pcmcia to work.



hi all =-)

i am running an old gateway2000 solo laptop with dsl-0.7.3.
laptop stats,pent-133,16 megs ram,1.4 gig h/d.

i have an smc single slot pcmcia 10meg network card.

dsl didnt recognize it on install.

so is there a way to get it to run?
and how would i go about getting the mac address of it so i can connect it to my router.

ty in advance =-)
What model is it..did you do any research on chipset or driver.
I know with the nec2000 drivers I had to manually tell it to modprobe it to get it running on my old laptop

See if that nic is nec2000 capable

Brian
AwPhuch
well i have another dumb question. lol.

is pcmcia allready enabled in the kernel tree?

or do i have to rebuild the kernel?

it is an smc8022T 10mbps ethernet portable network card.

it says novel NE2000 compatible
hot swap support


i have tons of linux books but none of them delve into pcmcia.
the only book i have that goes into the subject is "Linux Unwired" and all that covers is the installation procedures or rebuilding the kernel.
Quote (litdie @ Oct. 08 2004,01:16)
well i have another dumb question. lol.

is pcmcia allready enabled in the kernel tree?

or do i have to rebuild the kernel?

it is an smc8022T 10mbps ethernet portable network card.

it says novel NE2000 compatible
hot swap support


i have tons of linux books but none of them delve into pcmcia.
the only book i have that goes into the subject is "Linux Unwired" and all that covers is the installation procedures or rebuilding the kernel.

the NE2000 compatible drivers are already built..you have to enable them

STF for ne2000
Quote (cbagger01 @ Aug. 07 2004,21:51)
Try opening an xterm and typing:

sudo su
ifdown -a
modprobe ne    (or is it "modprobe ne2000", I forget)
ifup -a
exit

and then run netcardconfig

You may be able to specify the irq/io with something like this:

modprobe ne irq=10 io=0x300

or

insmod ne irq=10 io=0x300

Hope this helps.


I know it works because I have a compaq armada 3100 with docking station and the only way to get the dockingstation ethernet to work was do this (however using the settings from dualbooted 98 it was "insmod ne irq=11 io=0x320")

Perhaps a utility cd such as ULTIMATE BOOT CD might help in finding the system resources for particular hardware, this way its not a cat and mouse game of trying to figure out the irq and interrupts!!

Brian
AwPhuch
well i was messing about in diff files and noticed this in the config file for pcmcia.

card "SMC EZCard-10 Wthernet"
Version"SMC","EZCard-10-pcmcia"
bind"PCnet.cs"


thats the card i have.

so does that mean it all ready has drivers for it compiled?
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