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).
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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