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hi guys.

 

i'm very new to linux, i only installed mandrake 10.1 a few hours ago (on a toshiba satellite 4080xcdt laptop). during install it seemed to detect the pcmcia network card (3com megahertz 10/100 lan+56k modem) fine but when it rebooted at the end of the install and every time i boot since i get:

 

bringing up ethernet eth0: /bin/true [FAILED]

3c574_cs device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

 

i double checked to make sure the card was still locked in place and tried a couple of the fixes posted here for people having similar problems (configuring it to use a static ip and checking force no apic in bootloader) but still haven't had any luck getting it working.

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There is a bug in Mandrake installation that it forgots to load yenta_socket during installation. Hence, no pcmcia will run at all. Put this line into /etc/modprobe.preload file.

 

yenta_socket

 

And then try rebooting.

 

I mean, that card should load. I have it for my Toshiba laptop to replace the broken network jack.

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