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Re: PCMCIA LAN card problem



On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:37:14AM -0700, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> doesn't surprise me if it's some no-name garbage brand, or worse yet, a
> brand sold only in Japan that the kernel developers have probably never
> heard of.  It's probably a cost-cut fabrication that has a bunch of
> workarounds in its windows driver, but violates standards and as such the
> standard linux drivers wont deal with it.
> 
> Just a suspicion.  Have him borrow a 3com or some other known-good type of
> PCMCIA ethernet card and try that, just to make sure it's the card and not
> his notebook's PCMCIA controller, which could also be the problem.
> 

It`s acually CyQ`ve, don`t know how good a brand that is though. I don`t think it`s sold only in Japan- it`s in the default config file that comes with the pcmcia-cs package. it is even labled as "Linux-ready".


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