using a PCMCIA ethernet card on linux... how??
 

Hi all,

I have an Edimax EP-4103DL pcmcia ethernet card, and I'm not managing to use it under Linux...
the card has a Realtek 8139 chipset, thus should use th 8139too kernel module .
(I found a couple of reports of users that had it working with the 8139too module, and it is listed as Linux compatible on the Edimax site)

What I tried:

-make sure that the pcmcia service is enabled under the Salix Linux "System services" tool.
-as root: and to check that the module is loaded, and it is.
-as root:but I couldn't see the new ethernet card, only eth0 which is the integrated ethernet card.
-I also tried as root: and , but it's not listed there either (I don't know if it should..)

what am I doing wrong?

thank you!

It's possible the card wants to use a memory or IO region that is not usable on your laptop.
Also many pcmcia cards register their ports as usb devices .

remove the card, insert it and run dmesg |tail .
It may be that there are to many messages for tail to show all, in that case look in kernel.log .

Most of the pcmcia support has been stripped. Top of that, laptops are always goofy deals. They might put the pcmcia slot behind a bridge to bridge adapter that doesn't have support. Might be able to see if you can put back in the old pc card stuff.

Does the card show up when you run dmesg in a terminal?

I nosed around in the internet; it looks as if that card is about five years old.

You might have some luck with ndiswrapper, if dmesg shows the card as detected. I had some luck with a Linksys PCMCIA card and ndiswrapper about that time.

Thank you all for the replies,

at the end it was my fault, I didn't realize that "PCMCIA slot" was disabled in the bios.. after enabling it, I'm able to see the network card with Thankx again!

Thanks for the update. Sometimes we forget the simple stuff.