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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    PCMCIA LAN problems
From:       Matt Williams <lists () yewlands ! com>
Date:       2002-02-25 19:12:58
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Evening all

I'm trying to get my pcmcia lan card working in my vaio laptop.

The card is a 3 com and is supported by suse 7.3.

When I boot with the card in the pcmcia services start ok (two high beeps)
and the boot continues onto the last item, but when it tries to start X the
screen stays blank.

If I remove the card at this stage the system carries on and boots into X. If
I login and insert the card and try to ping my local network I get
destination unreachable. I can start and stop rcpcmcia successfully but if I
try ifconfig eth0 down up the machine locks.

If I boot without the card in and login as a user the same thing happens.

However, if I boot without the card, login as root and insert the card the
network, the card works straight away (without having to restart rcpcmcia
etc..)
I can then logout and log back in as a user and all is well.

TIA

matt

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