, ds, iThanks to all who responded with info to my question regarding the correct drive for a Linksys PC-Card 10/100 NIC for IBM Thinkpad. As best as I have figured out from the various responses coupled with online sources, the correct driver is the axnet_cs driver.
Interestingly, this driver does NOT appear under the selection choices from modconf during woody install. When I retried the install, I simply did not select any NIC driver, which caused the install to skip configuring the network entirely (bad). Once I was installed, however,I just manually created an entry in /etc/network/interfaces for eth0, restarted the network (/etc/init.d/networking start), and somehow the system found the network card entirely on its own. I do seem to have the necessary modules running: pcnet_cs, 8390, ds, i82365, pcmcia_core - all of which seem somehow related to the pcmcia subsystem, and I am guessing that pcnet_cs is the pcmcia network driver, which somehow seems to work. I don't fully understand what happened, but so far so good. Here's the problem: when I reboot, the system doesn't seem to see the nic unless, after the boot is completed, I remove the card and reinsert it. I assume the problem is that the bootup sequence is not probing the card correctly, but when the card is reinserted, cardmgr is then correclty configuring it. So, my question: how can I get the pccard to be probed at startup and properly configured? This isn't a trivial point for me, since my user accounts are actually served on my home lan via nis, but nis cannot start up because it canot bind to the ypserver because the network isn't fully up... Any help apprecaited. Thanks. nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
