Re: Redhat 6.1/Alpha and PCMCIA

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Matt Monacelli wrote:
> 
> I just got RH6.1 going on my Multia and have been going crazy trying to
> figure out how to enable support for PCMCIA.  BTW, what a pain in the a*s
> working around all the RH installer problems.  (Had to boot in single-user
> mode to create a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network file containing a
> value for hostname, plus had to manually paste the encrypted password in
> /etc/passwd from a regular user account to the root password since the
> installer decided to leave it blank - passwd wouldn't set it either).  I'm
> still getting a bunch of "Unary expected" errors in a bunch of the
> initscripts (I thought the new version of initscripts - 4.70 - was suppossed
> to fix these problems?).  Anyway, back to the matter at hand, since I can
> still boot past those errors, I am more concerned with getting PCMCIA going
> so I can get the Multia going as the server for my LAN instead of a client
> :)  I have a possibly unsupported card (New Media Livewire 10/100).  It's
> not the Livewire+ which is definitely unsupported, but it's not listed as
> supported either, potluck I guess.  Any help is greatly appreciated (I'm
> sure this is an easy one, I'm just not looking in the right place).
> 
> Matt

Hi there.

I just set my multia up for PCMCIA and as a firewall/bridge. I started
with the PCMCIA howto, and selected the 3.0.14 version of PCMCIA from
soundforge.org. I compiled it against the stock 2.2.13-0.9 kernel, and
followed the directions to "Red Hat"-ify the installation. To my
surprise it worked flawlessly. THen I followed the instructions in the
Firewall+Bridge to set that up, which also worked the first time (I was
surprised). I'm not actually using it as a firewall now because I think
it slows down my net connection, and it (of course) prevents me from
ssh-ing into my home box from work. If I can be of any help, drop me an
email. I can try to help, but I still am not sure how I pulled it off.
BTW- I had no problems with the 6.1 installer on my machine. Let me know
what problems you had.

Chris Kloiber