it's working.
it needed a laptop kernel.

the install didn't offer one? is that normal?

p.





der Mouse wrote:

> > trying to set up an old dell latitude CP pentium laptop.
>
> > the dmesg doesn't seem to show the :
> > "dell fast ethernet 10/100 base-tx by 3Com"
> > pcmcia card as detected.
>
> > My dmesg should say "Ethernet" somewhere shouldn't it?
>
> Not necessarily.  It could be just numbers, akin to the way PCI devices
> not handled by drivers show up as stuff like "vendor 0x1234 product
> 0x5678 at pci2 dev 9 function 7 not configured".
>
> Since PCMCIA is hot-plug, I'd suggest booting without the card and
> plugging it in after boot.  That way the messages related to that card
> will be easily identifiable - they're the ones that appear when you
> plug the card in.
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