[ltp] Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PC Card

[Daniel W. Schar]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tod Harter wrote:

i also was able to get one of these cards up and runnin using slackware
version, ah, i forget, an older one...but they have a great pcmcia floppy
that added support no prob...might be worth it as well...

dan

> I know that both Mandrake and RH have a bit of hackery in the network startup 
> scripts to deal with deffered initialization of PCMCIA network interfaces. 
> Its not something you SHOULD have to hack with, but I have no idea how other 
> distros deal with the issue, if they do. One would assume that the main ones 
> have SOME similar mechanism. 
> 
> On Tuesday 13 November 2001 16:14, you wrote:
> > Joe Luker said:
> > > I tried commenting out all other port entries IAW Mark Alford's post of
> > > 20JUL00, but that doesn't seem to help.
> > >
> > > I'm getting error messages after the kernel boots and when the services
> > > are starting up saying that my eth0 interface is failing - what is that
> > > name of that startup log that keeps all that stuff?
> > >
> > > Any troubleshooting ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Are you running a RH kernel, or your own?  Version?  Card Services or
> > Yenta? Version?
> >
> > Also, maybe I don't know what I am doing, but using PCMCIA Ethernet cards I
> > always have them fail when the system tries to bring it up, because the
> > pcmcia driver isn't loaded yet.  I don't know what the "right" solution is.
> >  With RH it always came up on its own a bit later in init.  With Debian I
> > have resorted to a "local" init script at the very end of init that takes
> > eth0 up and down.  (The first line of the script it "# hack hack hack . .
> > .").
> >
> > Oh, and are you talking about dmesg?  (Try typing dmesg and see if you go
> > "Ohhh.")
> > Good luck!
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
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