[ltp] Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PC Card

[Joe Luker]

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Thanks, I've never tried slackware.  I'm also thinking about picking up
the latest SuSe.  A friend who's also into linux raves about them -
doesn't use anything else - which is how I used to be about RedHat up
through early 6.x

"Daniel W. Schar" wrote:
> 
> 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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> Daniel W. Schar
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