[GLLUG] New Network Card

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 06 June 2002 17:01, after a long battle with technology, 
Brian Hoort wrote:
> I have purchased a Xircom Realport NIC for my laptop. My laptop
> currently has stable installed. How do I determine whether it has
> drivers for my card?

Plug the card in.  2 high beeps == "card works."  1 high beep and 1 low 
beep == "card won't work."  PCMCIA is great for that sort of thing.

If it doesn't work, the easiest thing to do is upgrade the pcmcia-cs 
package.  If you're running a custom kernel, get the pcmcia-cs source 
from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ and build the package according 
to standard procedure.  The site mentioned there contains a forum that 
has lots of helpful advice, and comp.os.linux.portable is also a good 
place to go.  David Hinds (pcmcia-cs maintainer) hangs out on both 
places and is pretty helpful/polite.

The long-term best thing to do is probably to upgrade to Debian 
"unstable" since "stable" is still using really old versions of most 
software packages, and modern hardware has a far better chance of being 
supported with recent kernels and recent X builds.

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