installing a nic

hi,

i have installed e-smith 5.6 on my Tosh Tecra 8100

Is it a big job to get my Xircom Realport2 PCMCIA NIC working?

Advice appreciated..

Fred

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:32:16 +0100, FRED staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> i have installed e-smith 5.6 on my Tosh Tecra 8100

What is this "e-smith"? Never heard of it. Which major distro is it
based on?

> Is it a big job to get my Xircom Realport2 PCMCIA NIC working?

If the kernel and PCMCIA services are reasonably up to date, it should
be easy. Start the PCMCIA service with a command like
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start . Plug the card in. If you hear 2 high beeps,
the card was recognized and you can do "dhcpcd eth0" or "ifconfig eth0
X.Y.Z.W up" for dynamic or static IP allocation. If you hear a high
beep and a low beep, the card wasn't recognized and the first thing you
should do is to update your kernel and PCMCIA services to the latest
available versions. There's a PCMCIA HOWTO at http://tlpd.org/ that you
should read.

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