Can someone help me out with the proceedure to get my NIC card to work in mandrake? I would really appreciate it. I have a D link wired NIC card and im runnin' Mandrake 9.1


THx
Ax

This is a PCMCIA card? If so, (after you login as root and open a console/terminal for typing in the commands that follow) does lsmod show pcmcia_core and ds and perhaps yenta_socket in the list? If so, does cardctl ident show your card in one of the sockets? If so, can you post the output?

it says this:

yenta_socket 13056 1

ds 8456 1


pcmcia_core 57184 0 (ds yenta_socket)


they do not appear in that order


Thx for the help, hopes this helps!!

Great, pcmcia is loaded, now, with the card plugged in what does cardctl ident say?

That is with the card in the slot

Yes, but could you please run "cardctl ident" with the card in the slot and post the output?

this is what it says



Socket 0:

product info: "D-Link", "DFE-690TXD:, "PC Card"
manfid: 0x0149, 0x0000
function: 6 (network)

Well, let's try using /etc/pcmcia/config first.
Remove the card from the machine.
Then, make a backup copy of the file like this (as root from the console) "cp /etc/pcmcia/config /etc/pcmcia/backup-config".

Then open /etc/pcmcia/config in a text editor, scroll down to around line 2087, you should see an entry around there for another D-Link card, make some space and add these lines:
- blank line -
card "D-Link DFE-690TXD"
version "D-Link", "DFE-690TXD:", "PC Card"
manfid 0x0149, 0x0000
bind "tulip_cb"
- blank line -

then from the console type: /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
plug the card back in and see if it acts any differently, if not, pull the card, edit /etc/pcmcia/config and remove the "version D-LInk...." line you added, then restart pcmcia and re-plug the card.

To see if the card is working, type "ifconfig -a" at the console, there should now be another network device, most likely named "eth1", or "eth" something.

If none of the above works then we'll have to try using hotplug.