From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: The installation process in Custom mode does not present the form used to configure my network, and my PCMCIA devices are not detected. I'm trying to upgrade my laptop (Toshiba 4025 CDT) from Red Hat 6.1 to Red Hat 8.0. My PCMCIA cards have worked fine under Red Hat 6.1 for several years, using David Hinds PCMCIA software. Clearly the problem is due to the way the DHinds software is packaged with Red Hat 8.0. If I try to manually start the cardmgr after the install completes I get the error message (in /var/log/messages) "no pcmcia driver in /proc/drivers" and cardmgr terminates. Note that I also tried installing Red Hat 7.2 on this hardware and in this case things went a little better: Although the installer still didn't recognize my hardware I was able to start /sbin/cardmgr manually. and I was able to bring up my network (manually) using /sbin/ifconfig. Note that it seems that the later the version of Red Hat that I try to install, the greater the number of problems that I encounter. Seems like the installer design does not consider backwards compatibility very important. The PCMCIA cards that I'm using are a 3Com 56K modem card and a Xircom CE3B-100BTX ethernet card. By the way, I posted this bug on the Official Red Hat support site, and the response I received was to post it here. What is the relationship between that site (comes with purchase of Red Hat 8.0) and this one. Although I was not told explicitly I assume since I was redirected that this kind of problem is "not supported" by RH. Would it be a good idea for me to try to install David Hinds' PCMCIA software by hand? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Red Hat 8.0 (or 7.2) on Toshiba 4025 CDT with PCMCIA cards 2. 3. Actual Results: Doesn't present network configuration form. Doesn't recognize PCMCIA cards at all. /sbin/cardmgr will not start. Expected Results: Should recognize my hardware and automatically permit me to configure my network. Additional info:
Tried commenting out some lines in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts that were causing problems and now when I try to start /sbin/cardmgr I get the messages "no function bindings" for the first line of config.opts (no matter what is on this line). If I try /sbin/modprobe xirc2ps_cs irq_list=7, I get the messages in /var/log/messages: "ds.o: no socket drivers loaded" My laptop is a bit old. Can you recommend laptops that work well with Red Hat 8.0?