Hi Everyone, I have installed Redhat 9.0 on my laptop, and now im facing problems connecting to the internet as Redhat wont recognize my pcmcia wireless card. I have a cisco 350 series aironet card, i installed the driver from cisco.com for linux but it still does not work. The lights itself dont blink nor does linux recognize the pcmcia card during bootup, it says failed to start up pcmcia card. The card and the slot are perfectly ok. I use the card for windows and it runs great.

had same problem with redhat on a laptop believe it was version 8.0 the problem resided in the fact the system was trying to initialize the network before pmcia see where the conflict arises dont know what work around will work for you but switching to mandrake solved it for me or try knoppix

PCMCIA devices are still being implemented properly in most distributions. The automated configuration wizards seem have problems and cause kernel panics frequently. For a few cycles (versions) now, the standard procedure has been to test a PCMCIA device on a stock kernel, find it didn't work, download the most recent PCMCIA-CS package, and rebuild the kernel. This is the circle of Linux life (and some wonder why people say Linux isn't ready for the desktop). This page specifically mentions Redhat 7, but I don't think the process has changed much since then (still 2.4 kernel). You can try Google, USENET (Google there again), and a Redhat or PCMCIA-CS mailing list if you need more information. Additionally, search linuxquestions.org - usually a lot of Redhat questions dealing with new versions.

Thank you Drake and Anonproxy for your reply.