syzygy

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Hi,

I'm sure this has a fairly elementary solution, but, being something of a Linux (installation) Newbie I'm completely bewildered by it.

I have a low-end Pentium laptop that I'd intended to use as a webserver, using a Grey Cell 2220 PCMCIA NIC. When I first booted off the RH9 boot/pcmcia driver floppy combination, this NIC successfully started up, contacted the installation mirror site, and happily ran an installation with no complaints whatsoever.

However, after rebooting into run-level 3 or 5, it seems to make absolutely no effort to recognise or otherwise indicate any knowledge of this NIC. The startup process says "PCMCIA [OK]" but doesn't make that nice Beep-beep noise.

There's an /etc/pcmcia directory which mentions the NIC in the config file, but nothing in the boot logs, no errors - nothing.

I tried to add it manually as new hardware in Gnome, but gave up because the X environment runs like a wounded badger on this old box, and anyway I would have thought it would have recognised it automatically. However, I'm happy to trawl through another installation if required.

Odd thing is, RH7.3 works just great with it - I would never have had to re-install had it not been for the presence of a RootKit (I feel violated.)

Any help you can offer would be most gratefully accepted - if I can offer any more information to help find an answer, I'll be falling over myself to do it.

Yours,

Desperate from Luton.

syzygy

Having had a bit of a scour around the forums, I visited:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp...A-HOWTO-2.html

and found, having referred to section 2.4, that the sysconfig startup options disabled the PCMCIA card by default (WHY? Oh for the love of Crimony, WHY?) so I edited /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to say:

PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365

A reboot gave me those delightul beeps, and I've been a cheerful human being ever since. Time for a celebratory cup of tea, I think.