Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (332 mails)

[Matt Williams <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evening all

I'm trying to get my pcmcia lan card working in my vaio laptop.

The card is a 3 com and is supported by suse 7.3.

When I boot with the card in the pcmcia services start ok (two high beeps)
and the boot continues onto the last item, but when it tries to start X the
screen stays blank.

If I remove the card at this stage the system carries on and boots into X. If
I login and insert the card and try to ping my local network I get
destination unreachable. I can start and stop rcpcmcia successfully but if I
try ifconfig eth0 down up the machine locks.

If I boot without the card in and login as a user the same thing happens.

However, if I boot without the card, login as root and insert the card the
network, the card works straight away (without having to restart rcpcmcia
etc..)
I can then logout and log back in as a user and all is well.

TIA

matt

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