Hello,

I just installed Fedora on my Sony Vaio PCG-SR7K laptop. Because I
don't have CDRom or floppy drive on my laptop, I connected HD from
laptop to desktop PC and on the desktop I installed Fedora. Linux
works OK, but PCMCIA card - Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast - is not
recognized. I tried redhat-config-network, but Linksys card is not on
the list. Browsing Internet I found that the correct driver is
axnet_cs driver.
My questions:
1. where can I download this driver?
2. what is a procedure to install a driver?

Thanks,

Zalek

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On Sat, 15 May 2004 00:54:26 GMT, Zalek Bloom <ZalekBloom@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I connected HD from laptop to desktop PC and on the desktop I
> installed Fedora. Linux works OK, but PCMCIA card - Linksys PCMPC100
> EtherFast - is not recognized.

I'm a Debian user but my guess is that since you installed on a machine
without PCMCIA slots you did not get the pcmcia card services. This
package will be named pcmcia-cs or something similar. Probably if you
install that it will work.

Perhaps a real Fedora user can explain how to do that <g>.


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On Sat, 15 May 2004 00:54:26 GMT, Zalek Bloom <ZalekBloom@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed Fedora on my Sony Vaio PCG-SR7K laptop. Because I
> don't have CDRom or floppy drive on my laptop, I connected HD from
> laptop to desktop PC and on the desktop I installed Fedora. Linux
> works OK, but PCMCIA card - Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast - is not
> recognized. I tried redhat-config-network, but Linksys card is not on
> the list. Browsing Internet I found that the correct driver is
> axnet_cs driver.
> My questions:
> 1. where can I download this driver?
> 2. what is a procedure to install a driver?

I am not really familiar with kernel pcmcia modules (just external
pcmcia), but there are at least 3 major versions of PCMPC100. The
original one used pcnet_cs in external pcmcia.

The one cardctl ident shows as "EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V2)"
was not even listed in my /etc/pcmcia/config, but sort of works if added
to use pcnet_cs. However, it is erratic at 100baseT speeds (even with
Windows drivers) and works much better forced back to 10baseT (full duplex
works).

The one cardctl ident show as "EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3)"
and label shows as Ver:C4 works with axnet_cs (seems to be artificially
throttled internally to work smoother at 100baseT speeds).

Unless you have an old laptop that cannot accept cardbus cards, a cardbus
pc card (32-bit) would work much better than a 16-bit pc card.

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