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Re: [DEBIAN] AARGH PCMCIA network adaptor still not recognised



> Nico De Ranter wrote:
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable.
> > My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ...
> > Anonymous Memory Card !!!  I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA
> > drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working portable (same
> > network adaptor) and recompiled everything but it still doesn't work!
> > I even tried installing Debian from a crapy InfoMagic CD I have (doesn't
> > contain pcmcia drivers) and then installing the pcmcia sources from the
> > the working notebook.  This worked... until I upgraded Debian over the
> > running network (making sure not to upgrade pcmcia support)  When I rebooted
> > pcmcia went to hell again!!
> > 
> > Can somebody PLEEEEEEEASE give me a suteable solution for this!  Having
> > the user reboot a couple of times at startup is absolutely out of the
> > question.  I'm trying to convince my boss that Debian Linux is a good
> > UNIX platform but I'm afraid this proves absolutely the oposite!
> > 
> > Nico.
> 
> On my laptop I must *power-down* from Win95 before rebooting into Linux
> in order for my 3c589d to work. (The same holds true for rebooting from
> Linux into Win95).

That's exactly the problem. I set up the PC's with a menu in the CONFIG.SYS
file so the user can choose between Win95/DOS/Linux (if there is a version of
lilo that let's the user choose from a menu (no not by pressing tab or whatever
first) please let me know, in the mean time I just don't regard lilo as "user-friendly").
Even if I boot from a floppy nothing is recognised :-(

Nico.

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