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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] PCMCIA LAN problems
From:       Michael Brown <mbrown () fensystems ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-02-26 8:43:57
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Matt Williams wrote:
> 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.

I'm hazarding a guess that it's a name resolution problem.  Could you
describe the networking setup (hostname, IP addresses, use of DHCP,
entries in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf etc)?

Michael


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