Re: Dell CPi PC LAN Card - followup

["Gary E. Bickford" <garyb fxt com>]

I posted a question a few days ago about getting my LAN card(s) to work.  I
have done so at least partly.

Installing 6.0 fixed it so that pcmcia actually installed the drivers, so
ifconfig -a actually showed an ethernet hardware address.  However
/etc/pcmcia/network start still failed - /dev/eth0 never got created.

RH support suggested that I use Linuxconf to install and turn on eth0. I had
not done that because my reading of the pcmcia docs said not to do that, that
pcmcia would do the eth0 set up.  I tried it, and bingo! I had a network.  DHCP
worked with a little fiddling - I had to set up the default gateway and DNS by
hand, in linuxconf and the control panel for network stuff (I forget what I did
where).  I had to reboot twice before everything got unconfused and actually
worked.  During boot, eth0 set up is deferred eliciting a "[FAILED]" message in
the logs, but it gets done later when pcmcia starts up.

Two questions remain, what will happen when I go home - will DHCP work?  and
what happens when I switch PCMCIA cards.  We'll see.
GEB