FC1 pcmcia network card failure

[Trevor Barton]

John McBride wrote:
> My netgear FA511 10/100 pcmcia network card is failing on boot after 
> installing FC1. It did not do this with RedHat Linux 9.
> 
> Once booting is complete, pulling/reinserting the card (hotplug) 
> restores functionality.

Not a lot of use to you, but I have exactly the same problems and symptoms with 
the same card.  They are also resolved by reloading pcmcia after boot 
(/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart).  This hints to me that there may be a soft 
fix for the problem by manipulating the init scripts (perhaps by restarting 
pcmcia in /etc/rc.d/rc.local), but it's early days yet, and I'm trying to find 
out where the network card stops working - it clearly works to some degree to 
start with because it gets a DHCP lease.

Also, I've just determined from pinging the machine from another that the card 
seems to fail at about the time the X display starts - I have an nVidia display 
adaptor and am currently using the standard (Fedora, not nVidia) display 
drivers.  I'll post anything else useful as I find it.

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