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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> This pcmcia ethernet card is recognized when I type /etc/pcmcia/start, on
> the same computer under BL3, with the same modules and config file, so I
> must be missing something else in BL2.

The card also works in BL2 if I insert it BEFORE I boot (same for BL3, 
otherwise I got an error message).

Maybe BL does not do 'hot plug'.

/etc/rc insmodde the rtl8139 module and did ifconfig eth0 at boot, and 
before I could get the card to actually transmit, I had to ifconfig eth0 
down and rmmod rtl8139 and then rmmod the smc module and insmod it again 
and ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 again before it would work, otherwise I got 
error messages.

The computer has a PCI ethernet card (which I could not get to work with 
the computer next to it, but it works with three other computers, at least 
one of which works with the computer next to this one for ethernet). They 
are all rtl8139 cards - why won't the first two work together?

We now have BL2 doing nearly everything that BL3 can do (have not tried 
swm or magicpoint yet) except Abiword.  netpbm required adding libc5.
And with this ethernet card working, we can easily copy both BLs to the 
latest laptop computer (after replacing the Redhat 128MB swap partition 
with a swap file and redoing 40MB of OS/2 partition).

Either of these BLs should be a suitable base for upgrading with glibc 
2.2.5 or later to use things like Opera and precompiled xpdf.

Opera 7.5.4 is not showing me an ad banner.