On Sat, 04 Oct 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking
in article and in the Usenet
newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup in article
, Bernard wrote:

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>I am trying to get my old Thinkpad 600 running on Linux RedHat 7.2,
>to connect to the Internet via an IBM pcmcia EtherJet card. The card
>does work on MSWIN 98 on the same system, so the hardware seems OK.
>My system RedHat 7.2 includes pcmcia functions, and my file
>/etc/pcmcia/config does include a mention of said card :

Red Hat 7.2 is horribly obsolete - official support ended in 2003, and
even the very limited back-port erratas were ended in May 2004. You
_REALLY_ should not be connecting this box to the Internet, especially
if you haven't installed the erratas - the release is seven years old!.

>However, nothing works. Thereafter, here are relevant lines appearing
>in my /var/log/messages :

But I don't see it being configured. What is the content of
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

[hubble ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=false
HOSTNAME=hubble.phx.az.us
DOMAINNAME=house.network
GATEWAY=
GATEWAYDEV=
[hubble ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.1.117
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
[hubble ~]$

(hubble was a 7.3 system years ago - your's should be similar. Note
that the 'DOMAINNAME' is for NFS, and _not_ for basic networking.)

>ping 192.168.1.1 gives "network unreachable. /sbin/ifconfig shows
>nothing more that the loopback

That's a good reason not to be working.

>Thanks in advance for any help in getting that EtherJet card to work
>on my system

You should note that this card is labeled "Experimental" in the
Hardware-HOWTO. It's not mentioned at all in the Ethernet-HOWTO.

Old guy