[ILUG] Network Card Help

[Braun Brelin]

Why don't you just get another PCMCIA ethernet adapter and use that?

Braun



On Tuesday 29 May 2001 02:04 pm, Sean Edwards wrote:
> 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
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> > 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 ?)
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> Niall