Dig deeper: contact Compaq and get them to tell you whether they support Linux or not on that product (they do support Linux in most of their business areas). Nine chances in ten it's either supported directly or an equivalent chip set to something that is already supported under another name. I had some problems with HP and they helped.. eventually. HP online tech support in the USA could not help at that time, but I got help from HP in France because of the importance os Suse Linux in office sales over there. > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of John J. Trammell > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:49 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Laptop. > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:46:19AM -0500, Luke Steiner wrote: > > 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. > > Ya, a little Googling makes me think so too. Too bad. > > > 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. > > From http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS it > looks like you're in good shape. I've been using a Linksys > NP10T for some time with much joy BTW. > > > It recognizes but when you go into 'ifconfig' it doesn't show > > that card at all. Anyone know how to do it? > > What does /var/log/daemon.log say? My (limited) PCMCIA experience > tells me to start looking there for error messages from 'cardmgr'. > And what have you got in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts?