pcmcia type II netcardconfig

Forum: Networking
Topic: pcmcia type II netcardconfig
started by: gekkokid

Posted by gekkokid on April 03 2004,22:54

I have recently installed DSL on my ageing laptop, i have inserted the PCMCIA card into the laptop, what do i have to do to install it - when i try netcardconfig it unkindly says: No supported network cards found.

I am using a German brand of card that i know from knoppix and debian sources both support it. but it doesnt seem to do anything, i know it worked with win95.

could it be that netcardconfig is really only for pci cards ethernet cards and not for pcmcia cards?

where am i going wrong? what can i do?

Posted by roberts on April 04 2004,07:01

What version are you running? From this and other posts you have made, it would appear 0.5.x version. That equates to Knoppix 3.1. 0.6.x versions of DSL are based on Knoppix 3.3. In 0.6.x much more devices are supported. So, as the system is booting do you see a section that shows cardmgr finding your ethernet card? And finally netcardconfig only cares about eth devices. So, yes you can use netcardconfig on a pcmcia ethernet card. It may solve many of your issues if you would use a more recent version.

Posted by gekkokid on April 04 2004,12:00

im actually running dsl 6.2, i am gonna try and borrow a pcmcia card of a friend just 2 c if its the card being poo