Mandrake 10.1 PCMCIA Ethernet (non wireless)
PII 33 mhz
320 MB RAM 8 MB Video Installation process goes extremely well. Everything loads like it did on my old PC. Installation wants it to reboot so I do that... when i change the Boot order in CMOS and start it again the program stops at a black screen with a blinking 'GRUB" at the top. Any ideas? |
Ok I fixed it.
The Lilo Bootloader was not overwriting the GRUB bootloader from a previous Distro so I changed the bootloader to grub in the install options and it loaded right up. Now I cant get it to locate my PCMCIA network card... any ideas? |
Did you have the PCMCIA card inserted when you installed Mandriva?
Check that the pcmcia modules are loaded first Code:
su - Code:
pcmcia 20648 4 Insert your card and goto the Mandriva Control Centre to configure it. Most PCMCIA network cards are detected by Mandriva as long as it doesn't require propriatory drivers - what is the type and make? |
Its a Linksys PCM100
I believe the drivers are "ne" for NE1000 and 2000 PnP. The problem is when I run dmesg I get an error saying PnP Disabled error message. I will grab the full dmesg and post it tonight. I ran lspci and it is locating my two card bus slots but the lights on the card arent coming on. It seems like its not even being noticed. |
Not sure how I did it but here it goes...
reloaded mandrake 10.1 this time making the install locate the pcmcia and it did without a problem. Lights lit up but I had left the cat5 unplugged... mistake. Moved the laptop near the cat5 and had to reboot the machine. It didnt boot the card the next time. So I was back where I started. I read around LQ I got bits and pieces of what needed and went at it. cd /etc removed the alias pcnet_cs eth0 line from the modprobe.conf file then I added pcnet_cs to the module file and rebooted. The card was detecting. ifconfig shows card properly and then I was done. (for those who are new, ifconfig will give you a command not found error unless you are in /etc which is something I was unaware of. I got this thing going and I am scared to reboot. But it is almost 2 am here and I am almost sure I can get this thing up again if need be. This was definately a test... tomorrow, gmail and WM setup again. WOOT:newbie: |
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