[PLUG] pcmcia install of RH 7.3

[Mike Neal]

Similar problem solved by changing the CMOS setting for:
PC Card Controller Mode
from the default to:
CardBus/16 bit
Got the tip from the PCMCIA mail list.

Cheers,
Mike

At 12:59 PM 9/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>  I have not been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong, or not doing
>right, but I cannot initiate the installation program on my Toshiba Portege
>notebook so I can upgrade it from RH 6.2 to 7.3.
>
>  The pcmcia.img was transferred to a floppy disk and that boots just fine,
>until it asks for the floppy disk with the nic driver. The card is a 3Com
>574TX. According to the files on the second floppy I made (from
>pcmciadd.img), the 3c574_cs driver is part of pcmcia_core. I imagine that
>the latter is supposed to be found in modules.cgz on that disk.
>
>  When I put the second floppy disk in, and press [Enter], there's some disk
>activity then everything hangs and the machine is completely locked up. The
>floppy drive active light remains lit but I can do nothing on the notebook
>other than press the power switch.
>
>  The next time, I copied the 3c574_cs.o file from
>/usr/src/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net, or something like that, to the second
>floppy disk. Then I tried the installation again. Same results as the first
>time.
>
>  This is such a common pcmcia nic that I don't expect this reaction. Does
>anyone have suggestions for me to try, or insight into why the module is not
>found and loaded?
>
>  Once I get this working, I'll use the same nic on my fiancee's machine to
>replace the current win95 with RH 7.3.
>
>TIA,
>
>Rich
>
>
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