Those cards are not supported 

Forum: Installing Linux using or onto a PCMCIA device
Re: RedHat 6.1 Install using PC Card - arg! (Lionel B. Dyck)
Date: 2000, Mar 20
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

These two cards (Cadmus Micro 10/100 ethernet, IBM 4x CDROM) are not on the supported cards list. You're going to have a very difficult time trying to modify the Red Hat installation disks to support them. There's no easy way to do it. I'm not sure what the specific problem is with the CDROM card. Part of the problem with PCMCIA installations is that there is no space on the install disks to put things to help diagnose problems. And without more information, it isn't possible to tell exactly what is wrong, or to fix anything. Your best bet is to buy or borrow a card that Red Hat says is actually supposed to work with RH6.0. Even still, PCMCIA installation is often problematic, which is why Red Hat will tell you they don't officially support it at all. -- Dave

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Sad: Support for Cadmus card ?? Re: Those cards are not supported (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Mar 20 From: Lionel B. Dyck lbdyck

Thanks for you response. I kept looking and I found this on the ethernet card vendors web site: Getting Started for RedHat 6.0 with PCMCIA-3.0.9 * Login as root. * Copy lnax100.o into /lib/modules/2.2.5 -"cp lnax100.o /lib/modules/2.2.5" * Copy config.lna100n into /etc/pcmcia - "cp config.lna100n /etc/pcmcia" * Use vi editor to append the following line into /etc/pcmcia/config - source ./config.lna100n * Restart the cardmgr - "/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart" * Logoff root. If I can do this then perhaps I can do the ftp install. But how do I change the pcmcia.img diskette? I've send them a e-mail asking where to find these files as they are not on their driver diskette that came with the card.

Those instructions don't apply in this case Re: Those cards are not supported (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Mar 20 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I saw those instructions, and they do not help in your situation. You can't easily edit the pcmcia.img diskette to add this driver, because the install disk contains a compressed linux filesystem image. -- Dave

Sad: Can't win - sigh Re: Those instructions don't apply in this case (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Mar 21 From: Lionel B. Dyck lbdyck

Seems I can't win on this one - thanks for your thoughtful assistance.

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