PCMCIA LAN Card [SOLVED]

[Guest cpt-beaky]

I am new to Linux and after running Debian for 3 months successfully, I wanted to go to a more comercial Distro. I chose Mandrake as a trial because I read it was easy to load and came on this months cover disk.

The Install went ok and I am sure that the system updated at the end.

But after a reboot my network card did not work. I tried deleting it and adding it again but it doesnt seem to want to let me do this under the control centre.

It asks if I want to add it manually and I select the relevant driver but it returns to teh dirver screen again.

 

My Pc is an IBM Thinkpad 570E.

I am using a PCMCIA Xircom REM56G-100 ethernet card.

 

If I go into conftol centre- harware I can see 2 PCI1221 PC CardBus Controllers.

They both show as yenta_socket devices.

 

The version of Mandrake I have installed is 10.1 Community release.

 

Please could somebody advise me on how I get Mandrake to recognise my Ethernet

[Guest cpt-beaky]

Thinkl I have resolved the issue:-

I think the prob;lem is with the Yenta_Socket.

 

I found the following link:-

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...271#post1275271

 

Also found the follwoing bug:-

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7548

 

In both of these it states to look at the modprobe.preload file in /etc.

Then to add the following lines:-

yenta_socket

cardmgr

 

So the full file looks like the following:-

# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.

#

# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are

# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with

# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.

# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY

# for old kernel use /etc/modules

 

via-agp

yenta_socket

cardmgr

 

 

This worked for me last night and I restarted my computer twice.

Ill try it some more tonight and update this entry with teh results.

 

Many thanks to all teh people in teh various forums I have used to get this information from.

[SpikeyKlitske]

Thank you for sharing the solution to your problem. I am sure others will benefit from it.

[Guest cpt-beaky]

Did a total re-install of Mandrake 10.1 Community and the issue re-appeared.

Implimented the above fix and confirmed that all is now ok.

This confirms that the above config change resolves the issue..

 

 

PS dont know how to mark this entry as "problem solved"

[spinynorman]

PS dont know how to mark this entry as "problem solved"

I've done it for you, but you can do it by editing the first post in the thread. :)