[ILUG] Network Card Help

[Sean Edwards]

The card and laptop is an employer resource, so as we say in America "Ya
getz what yez payz fer!"  So, fobbing off the card is not an option here,
and requesting another brand of card is also not an option.

MRi is "looking into it", but I do not expect this to lead to a solution.

-=Sean Edwards=-
sedwards at integrated-training.com

-----Original Message-----
From: niall at magicgoeshere.com [mailto:niall at magicgoeshere.com]On Behalf
Of Niall O Broin
Sent: 29 May 2001 12:16
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Network Card Help


On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:15:43AM +0100, Sean Edwards wrote:

> lspci is a tool for the pci bus.  I ran "cardctl ident" PCMCIA, and the
> information returned was nil, zilch, nada, not a sausage.  I told me there
> was a PCMCIA Ethernet 10/100 card, but that was all.  No manufacturer,
chip
> set, nothing useful.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

The preceived wisdom here, from myself (thanks to Google) and others has
been that either the card is not supported, or it has a horrible chipset
which makes people shudder and is essentially not supported. It would seem
that your best option is to fob it off on some 'doze user (that's what I did
with my old Xircom card) in exchange for soemthing else, or untrouser your
credit card and buy another one :-( I've seen 3Com cards advertised on Scan
for below 50 quid, so I imagine you can get a lesser brand for less if you
look around - but do make sure it supports Linux first, as you can't find
any 'doze users to swap with (otherwise you wouldn't have bought it, right
?)





Niall