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["Matt Smed" <smedboy AT telus.net>]

Hello everyone,

As a result of this list and various help files on the Internet, I have
successfully configured a free laptop that I got from a friend.

I have one small problem, though.  When initializing any card using
"rc.pcmcia start" I get some error messages and cannot get the cards to
work.  The PCIC is Cirrus PD6710.

I tried several cards in the computer, and none seemed to work.

Here are the error messages from 3 such cards:

-1-             Surecom Ethernet Adapter EP-427/EP-427-T

        cardmgr[50]: Socket 0: Surecom Ethernet
        cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe 8390'
        cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
        pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
        cardmgr[50]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: No such device
"cardctl ident" results in:
        product info: "TAMARACK","Ethernet","A","0047433180e'0"
        function: 6 (network)

-2-             3com Etherlink III Lan+33.6 Modem PC Card

        cardmgr[50]: Socket 0: 3Com 3c562/3c563 Ethernet/Modem
        cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe 3c589_cs'
        cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
        eth0: 3com 3c562, io 0x200, irq 3, hw_addr 00:60:97:EC:DC:8F
                8k FIFO split 5:3 Rx:Tx, auto xcvr
        tty01 at 0x0100 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
        cardmgr[50]: executing: './network start eth0'
        cardmgr[50]: + ./network: cat: command not found
        cardmgr[50]: executing: './serial start ttyS1'
        cardmgr[50]: + ./serial: cat: command not found 
        cardmgr[50]: + ./serial: expr: command not found        
        cardmgr[50]: + ./serial: uname: command not found

-3-             Intel Faxmodem Data 14.4 Kb

        cardmgr[50]: Socket 0: Serial or Modem
        cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
        serial_cs: RequestIO: No more items
        cardmgr[50]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource
temporarily     unavailable
"cardctl ident" results in:
        Socket 0:
                Product info: "Intel", "PCMCIA Faxmodem 14.4/14.4",
"MBFM6830","A-0"
                Manfid: 0x0089, 0x0300
                Function: 2 (serial)

If any one is familiar with configuring pcmcia, please feel free to let
me know how I should go about getting these cards to work.  I would
especially like to be able to use the modem, as I have free dial-up
access, and I want to try out the text-only browsers.

All of the cards work on other laptops running windoze.

Thanks,

Matt

Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 DX40 Mhz
Dimensions: 12" x 5" x 1"
8 MB Ram
38 MB Swap
1.4 GB HDD
1 PCMCIA card slot
640x480 BL2.1 Grayscale VGA16 X-server
Very fast OS! (considering the specs)