Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 296961
Install fails to recognise PCMCIA network card
Last modified: 2008-01-10 12:06:41 EST
Description of problem: If I try to install Fedora 7 on my old Satellite 4090XCDT laptop, the install fails since it doesn't recognise the existence of the network card Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): current boot.iso disk with sha1sum 3f5c4b9fb31a7e0f24e3b47a797a1a1340cb197c How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. burn boot.iso to a cd 2. boot and step through till choice of install mechanism 3. choose http Actual results: No suitable device is found Expected results: install should continue using Xircom Additional info: This computer works with fedora core 4 kernel 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 attached are various hardware diagnostic outputs taken under FC4. I think that it stopped working with kernel 2.6.17.
Created attachment 200081 [details] FC4 Output from lsmod / lspci / cardctl ident / cat /proc/interrupts,/proc/ioports,/proc/iomem
This should be working in rawhide. Please retest if possible and reopen this bug if you continue to see problems. We've done a lot of work in this area recently so it's likely that your bug has been taken care of. Thanks.