Laptops :: PCMCIA Network Card problem

Hey all.
I'm having trouble with my laptop, or to be exact, the PCMCIA Network card I have in it.
(DSL installed and runs perfectly btw. As far as I can see, this is the only problem I have.)
The Network card activates, and I can get information about it, however, I cannot get online, when I try to run the Network tools all I get is "No network card/adaptor" (Sorry, I know it's not what it literally says but I dont have my laptop here with me.)
Is this a known problem? (PCMCIA-Network cards not supported?) Is there any known solution or advice for me?

what do the commands
ifconfig
cardctl ident

give you?

Sorry for the time it took to get back to you.
When I run the command ifconfig I get:
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet adress: 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric 1
RX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collision: 0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 0 (0.0B) TX bytes 0 (0.0B)

And cardctl gives:
Product info: "CardBus", "10/100Mbps Ethernet Card", "", ""
manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c
function: 6 (network)
Socket1:
no product info available

Well there's the reason for "No network card/adaptor". ifconfig should have more then just the loopback lo. I would've expected to see eth0 there also.

So, cardctl gives us just some very basic information. Do you know what brand/model card your network card is? Then we can figure out what driver we need to load to get it to work.

Right now you've got a 30% of getting the card to work.
Worst case: you'll have to compile new kernel drivers for the
card
Best case: you'll need to lsmod <driver name>

The network card is a Zonet. ZEN1200. 10/100 Mbps

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