Warning -- Newbie answering My experience is that a nic will get recognized by the os and load the driver for it but that alone did not bring up the NIC. I had to make an entry one of the boot scripts to bring the nic up. Check to see if the driver was loaded lsmod If driver loaded the ifup eth0 should bring up the connection. Good luck John Miller Software Developer Phone: 612-547-7573 Fax: 612-547-7580 Mail Stop: T23 MailTo:john.miller at rbcdain.com -----Original Message----- From: Luke Steiner [mailto:nightcanton at attbi.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:46 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] Laptop. To anyone who can help, I have a Compaq 17xl365 laptop. I just put Red Hat linux on it and I can't get the network card to work. It is a Compaq NIC so I don't believe it is supported. But I do have a PCMCIA linksys PCM100h1. I tried installing the card but the only thing linksys gives you is the PCMCIA software to make the linux OS recognize the PCMCIA card. It recognizes but when you go into ' ifconfig' it doesn't show that card at all. Anyone know how to do it? Take it Easy, Luke