Re: [sentinix-list] New Sentinix user, questions on PCMCIA Network cards

On Friday 12 December 2003 22:02, Noller, Gregory wrote:
> Thanks for building Sentinix, I look forward to figuring it out, so to
> speak.
>
> I'm not a *nix wizard, so some things are a little more difficult to me
> than other folks.
>
> During the install of 0.70.5 I too fell victim to the screen pg-down in the
> LILO install, I hit q, then f10 and back and forth and reinstalled and
> still couldn't make it work.  I read that screen 10 times looking for
> another key to hit when finished.  Then I searched on Google and found the
> thread (here) where it's explained to pg-down and install Lilo.  So I got
> past that.

A lot of people have had problems with that one, I've just got to explain 
things better in that menu. :)

>
> Everything seems ok, except I cannot get the thing to recognize the nic.
>
> I'm on a Dell D600 1.4GHz with 1 gig ram and 60 gig HD.  I couldn't find
> the motherboard nic in the list, so I plugged in an old 3C589D card and
> made sure I enabled pcmcia.  Still no-go.  I installed all the drivers from
> the list for these cards.
>
> I've tried a Dell card (3C575), a Cisco Aironet 350, and a Linksys USB VPN
> Adapter, all to no avail.  Can't get a nic to hook-up.
>
> Any ideas?

are all those pcmcia NICs?  :)

I haven't tried sentinix with pcmcia hardware at all, that's way down on my 
priority list since sentinix is a server distro and should primarily function 
on PCI NICs.  But the pcmcia modules are there however.

It was a few years ago since I last installed Slackware 6 or 7 on a laptop, so 
I don't remember the specifics.   Wait...  that laptop is still plugged into 
the wall, I'll boot it up....  ;)       wow linux 2.2.19...

"pcmcia_core" and "pcnet_cs" (it's a NE2000 compat 10mbit card) are the one's 
running on that one.  It's running the "cardmgr", don't really know what it 
does other than load/unload modules if the card is removed/inserted.

	Michel

>
> Gregory Noller
> Senior IT Security Technologist
> Technology Risk Services
> Koch Business Solutions, LP
> Wichita, Kansas
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>
>
> Gregory Noller
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> Technology Risk Services
> Koch Business Solutions, LP
> Wichita, Kansas
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