For the first part of your problem, with the network card: check the PCMCIA-HOWTO notes about Red Hat (and Mandrake). There are some config file issues when you upgrade the PCMCIA drivers, that may prevent the drivers from automatically configuring a network card. For the modem, this really sounds like a PPP configuration issue and not a PCMCIA issue. My guess is that the active network interface (which probably includes a default route pointing to eth0) is not cooperating with the new PPP device. It is really hard to tell if there is a driver problem using PPP: there are so many PPP specific things that could be wrong. If you want to diagnose whether the problem is with the modem or with PPP, try to make a connection using a simple terminal program like minicom. If that works, then PPP is the problem, and the PPP-HOWTO might be a good place to look. -- Dave |