I have an old 3com 3c562D PCMCIA card and Red Hat 9. The card is detected during installation. I go in the Network panel and I'm able to Activate/Deactivate it. When the computer boots I get the error "eth0: eth0 does not seem to be present."

I visited www.redhat.com and saw that the card is supported and the kernel driver is "3c589_cs". Also, during the booting process the loopback interface stars OK. When I activate/deactivate the pcmcia process the light on the cable attached to the card blinks. I assume that is a good thing.

Well, any suggestions? I am trying to migrate 100% to Linux and I need a PCMCIA card that will work at home. At work I have a docking station and that works well.

Thanks for your time and any suggastions.

Evan

I believe your network is starting before pcmcia is loaded. You may have to change the start valve in /etc/rc3.d rc4.d and rc5.d. to start pcmcia before network. Make a note of what it is before changes just in cause something else needs to load before pcmcia can start.

Note you will want to change the ones with S for start K is for Kill.

Example:

If in network is S12network and pcmcia is S24pcmcia, then make pcmcia something like S10pcmcia.

Also may need to make sur enetwork stops before network on shutdown, usually in /etc/rc0.d

Have fun.
Brian1
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