DELL LatitudeCPx450 PCMCIA to eth supported??? Or usb/ ethernet adapter??

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:56:54 +0100, Marc staggered into the Black Sun
and said:[color=blue]
> Is the DELL Latitude CPx 450's PCMCIA to ethernet supported??? I know
> the machine works probably well, but... the PCMCIA not... (I think it
> is the pcmcia slot, not the type of card... I've only seen one
> message on a linux mail list, without answers...)[/color]

All modern PCMCIA chipsets *should* be supported, since they all use the
yenta_socket module. If your PCMCIA subsystem isn't working, it'd help
if you said what you have tried, what errors you received, what symptoms
you saw, the output of "uname -a", the distro you're using and its
version number, output from "dmesg | grep Yenta", output from "lspci
-vv" that relates to the PCMCIA subsystem, etcetera. (From .be? Je
peux lire et écrire français, mais pas Flemish, désolé.)
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> I know about a USB to ethernet adapter (even USB2), but is that
> working under linux?? What type works??[/color]

Several USB networking adapters work, but I can't give you a good link
other than [url]http://qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=16[/url] , which lists
a bunch of networking adapters and whether they work or not.

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