Re: PCMCIA networking

Yes, the man vi and elvis are fixed, several other things too,
go to http://www.tosm.net/rb/ for the newest one. -Tom

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Willie McKemie wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 11:50:07 -0500
> From: Willie McKemie <[email protected]>
> To: Tom Oehser <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] PCMCIA networking
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:17:38PM -0400, Tom Oehser wrote:
> >
> > pcnet_cs works fine, so it must be that there is no config entry.
> >
> > Edit the /etc/pcmcia/config file (you can append from rc.custom.gz
> > if you don't want to bother rebuilding) to add this info so that it
> > knows to run it.  If you get it working send me the config line and
> > I'll add it to the default.
>
> Alright, I got it to work by putting in the /etc/pcmcia/config file:
>
> card "NE2000 Compatible Ethernet"
>   manfid 0x0149, 0xc1ab
>   bind "pcnet_cs"
>
> After trying several non-working pertubations, I located the above
> lines in a Debian potato install that does properly handle the card.
>
> I didn't make a new toms floppy; I killed cardmgr, edited
> /etc/pcmcia/config, and restarted cardmgr.
>
> I am right now telnetted into my mail computer from a laptop running
> toms2.0.0.  I notice that, through telnet, only the top 25 lines of my
> 60 line display are used.
>
> I also notice that "man vi" and "man elvis" give interesting results;
> maybe I read about you fixing that in a later version?
>
> >
> > > Linksys model NP10T.
> > >
> > > "Network Everywhere"
> > > "Ethernet 10BaseT"
> > > "2.0"
> > > " "
> > > manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab
> > > function: 6 (network)
> > >
> > > Uses pcnet_cs.  The wireless one uses wvlan_cs.
>
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