[ale] PCMCIA card has disappeared

[Jim Kinney]

Check /proc/modules to see if the cs modules is loaded. If not, load it
with insmod cs (or it may be insmod pcmcia). Also, check your /boot to see
if you have a kernel other than the one you just booted with that might
have had pcmcia module added.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com wrote:

> I've been using a 3com Ethernet/modem card on my RH5.1 laptop for some time
> now quite peachily.  Today, after booting my laptop to Linux after not
> having done it for a long time, it looks as though Linux is no longer
> seeing the card.  Running ifconfig now only shows l0; eth0 and ppp0 don't
> appear even though they're still listed in the Network Configuration X
> tool.  I also no longer have a /dev/modem.  Booting w/ and w/o card doesn't
> seem to make a difference, and whereas when everything worked, plugging the
> card in caused a little bit of disk activity for a second, but no more.
> FWIW, the card still works fine in Win95 although I find that I have to
> pull the cord out and push it back in for it to work right.
> 
> Where do I start?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
>