[H-GEN] Redhat 5.2 Network install and PCMCIA. (fwd)

[David Wood]

Hi all,

Andrae Muys wrote:
> My boss has bought a brand new Toshiba Notebook, specifically for the
> purposes of running Linux on it.  A nice little beast, ~156MB of RAM, and
> PCMCIA ethernet and SCSI.  Naturally,  having an almost direct ethernet
> connection to the primary Australian sunsite mirror, I would like to do an
> FTP install.

I have a Gateway laptop with the same kind of PCMCIA ethernet card
(3C589).  I have never been able to get RH's PCMCIA support to work on
RH 5.0 or 5.1.  I was hoping that they would fix it by 5.2.

There is a utility to check the cardmgr's status.  Called 'cardctl', it
allows you to both sees status and control the cards and card manager. 
You might want to see if it is included with the installation and see if
you can poke around a bit more.

Alterantely, that leaves you with a non-networked install.  Some
options:

- CD?  I guess it doesn't have one or you wouldn't have posted;
- Basic Debian install, put files onto HD (that's what we did, as I
recall).

Once up, I have had no problem at all with the PCMCIA support or the
cardmgr utilties.  Hot-swapping cards works well.

Regards,
Dave
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