Networking :: PCMCIA Xircom Realport Cardbus 10/100+Modem56

*Does a happy dance* Success!!!!!

someone should move this thread to laptops ? lol

A friend of mine gave me the final hint to get Hikarunix working with the net. I assume this will work for DSL too.

I ended up having to make links (soft links whatever that means exactly) like so:

(this is on the cmd line in EmelFM or an Xterm)

-> cd /etc/rc5.d
-> ln -s /etc/init.d/networking S50networking # see below*

-> ln -s /etc/init.d/pcmcia S49pcmcia #same applies here

-> reboot

When it reboots, the links you made *should* force DSL to look up the info on how to configure the card first *then* start up the network itself.

The fact this works on Hikarunix leads me to believe this will work for most distros that have trouble with putting up the network before configuring the net card. I hope this helps someone else cuz gods know this issues driven me batty on DSL & Mepis! Yet the workaround works perfectly on these 2 distros. Whee... I am the linux goddess

# * this makes a soft link to that file which is located in the directory rc5.d; the # has to be less than 98 and likely more than 20 if i remember correctly. Don't worry if theres already a link in the /init.d with the number S50, DSL should go alphabetically if 2 #s match up in its search for which link to hit next.

hello m8's
I got the same type of card and I cant get it to work...
Done and tested what I have found on this board but nothing.
The card works in other dist.. I have tryed to add the symlinks but no change the stange thing is the second symlink dont point to enything atleast I cant find any pcmcia in the dir it points to...
pls any help wulde be gr8.

Quote (foxmaster @ Feb. 27 2005,15:58)

OK what you want to check is:

-> go to the /etc/init.d directory on whatever partition your DSL is installed to (keep in mind I did a hard drive install as I found that a LiveCD boot or frugal did not make those directories on the hdd for some reason...maybe I did something wrong?) and see if there is a file in there called pcmcia

-> do the same for the file "networking" under the init.d directory again.

If these 2 files exist, you *should* as root or using sudo, be able to make the symlinks I made then you must reboot for these to take effect properly. If they still don't work try a hard drive install perhaps & the symlinks idea.

Are you using DHCP or a static ip? That will make a difference I think.

Aveline

thx for the fast reply.. I have a hd install and using static ip lan. I will try it useing dhcp. the pcmcia file in the init.d dir
cant do anything it's empty unlike...??

Foxmaster

cheked the bios and made some changes,,

And now it auto load the xircom moduel and I can set up the network adress but it wont start the card..???

I got this error on boot"/etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep"

can u m8's get somthing out of this

Foxmaster

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