[tulip] RedHat PCMPC200 on Sony PCG-C1VP

[Jarl Friis]

Bryan DeLuca <bryan@bryandeluca.com> writes:

> I posted a question several weeks ago regarding my Linksys PCM200 PCMCIA
> adapter and received no help.
> 
> I found many postings of people that also were having problems with this
> card.  The only solution seemed to be installing Donald Becker's latest
> driver, but these were for 2.4.10 kernels.  I was using RedHat kernel
> 2.4.18-10 source tree and was not having luck compiling Donald's
> module.
> 
> I think that the problem was with the RedHat kernel tree or at least the
> driver that is included in that tree.  So, I tried both of the PCMCIA
> install disks for RedHat 7.3/8.0 and neither worked "No module for PCI
> slot", which confirmed for me that the issue was not with my
> configuration of pcmcia-cs.  I compiled a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel (a few
> patches: Win4Lin, swsusp, and lvm-1.0.6) all of the problems were
> resolved.  The PCM200 is now happily working at 100FDX.

So... Conclussion: Your problem at first writing was more a RedHat
problem than a Scylds netdrivers problem. Further conclusion: RedHat
(kernels) sucks...

Jarl