On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Matt Williams wrote:

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.

I'm hazarding a guess that it's a name resolution problem. Could you describe the networking setup (hostname, IP addresses, use of DHCP, entries in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf etc)? Michael