I am really coming to the end of ideas. I have scoured the Internet to
try to find a solution but I am not sure what I can do now.

Laptop is: Dell Lattitude CP
PCMCIA Card is: Linksys PCM100H1 - Phoneline 10/100 Network card

I know this card works with this machine because I have been using it
with Fedora Core 2. I want to move to Slackware because it does not
seem to be as resource heavy.

Well I am having difficulties getting this card to talk to the network.
The adapter lights are on, indicating that the link is there. When I
see the boot messages go by, I do see an unsupported card message, but
then the next message identifies the card correctly.

But I see a message roll by: "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable"

I try doing a ifconfig eth0 and I get the following message:

"eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found."

I think cardmgr is starting up before Slackware starts network
services. But I am unsure. In Fedora 2, I had to re-order the rc3.d
files to make sure that card services were started before network
services were started up. I am unsure how to control the starting of
daemons in Slackware. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Can you post your dmesg output? Just the part dealing with the
cardmng. Sounds like a card module issue.....

Darkcamel

Slackware's daemons run on a different model to those in Fedora, take a
look in /etc/rc.d/ and you should be able to see them all. Rather than
everything being related to run levels, you can see the startup scripts
relating to each daemon. I think you'll find them a lot more friendly
than Fedora's <tin foil hat on>. If you want to add anything yourself,
the generally accepted place is /etc/rc.d/rc.local. You should be able
to follow the order of the daemons quite easily.

"RonH" <rh10023@hotmail.com> writes:

> I am really coming to the end of ideas. I have scoured the Internet to
> try to find a solution but I am not sure what I can do now.
>
> Laptop is: Dell Lattitude CP
> PCMCIA Card is: Linksys PCM100H1 - Phoneline 10/100 Network card
> snip <

> I think cardmgr is starting up before Slackware starts network
> services. But I am unsure. In Fedora 2, I had to re-order the rc3.d
> files to make sure that card services were started before network
> services were started up. I am unsure how to control the starting of
> daemons in Slackware. Can someone point me in the right direction?
>

As a workaround, have you tried booting up with the card removed and
then sticking it in after you have logged in? I had a slightly
different problem on a Dell Latitude with a Xircom card, and this worked
for me.

My problem was finally solved by custom compiling a 2.4.26 kernel for
this laptop

--
Larry Stamm
http://www.larrystamm.com

darkcamel <dascamel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can you post your dmesg output? Just the part dealing with the
> cardmng. Sounds like a card module issue.....
>
> Darkcamel
>
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMcIA probe: not found.

OK I did a little research on the error and got something. The Intel
PCIC and Databook TCIC-2 probes are BIOS PNP probes, you can set the
default in your Bios.

Didn't find any awnsers.......but I had problems with a Network linksys
PCI card on my desktop and Pcmcia on my laptop. So I went to
/etc/pcmcia and opened the config file. And any card listing for
Network everywhere and Linksys I changed the module to pcnet_cs. That
fixed the issue for me.

Darkcamel