Redhat 8.0 and laptop

Well, I installed RH8.0 on my pos company laptop (quantex pos). After the 3 hours it took to upgrade, Im less than happy. It seems that either my pcmcia nic is dead, or its dead as far as linux is concerned. No lights on the dongle, no nothing. Im pretty sure its a good card, i just used it to get online with. So, might be a bug with either pcmcia cards, or just my xircom nic card. :

[GhostDawg]

Goto this site, http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp...CIA-HOWTO.html and read it thoroughly.

I think some pcmcia drivers come with the kernel but you may want to use theirs.

I would, but the non-working pcmcia nic is the only link to the net on that machine. It was working fine with rh7.3, so Im leaning toward it being an 8.0 problem. I am doing a fresh install now though, whereas I just did an upgrade last time to see if this changes anything.

Well, I did a clean install and still no joy on the nic. Also, I dont like the new desktop at all. My thoughts on RH8.0 is stick with 7.3.

[coltrane]

as in SUSE 7.3
;D

[Spot]

[quote author=Mountainman link=board=7;threadid=5193;start=0#51183 date=1033632883]
Well, I did a clean install and still no joy on the nic. Also, I dont like the new desktop at all. My thoughts on RH8.0 is stick with 7.3.
[/quote]

Yea, I really don't see where all the fuss is coming from really. Other than the hyped desktop "enhancements", gcc 3.2, and Apache 2.0, this doesn't really seem to be a major upgrade. There isn't even a major upgrade in kernel versions, as there have been with most previous RH x.0 versions - it's still kernel 2.4.18, still XFree86 4.2.0.
RH 7.3 is oviously very much matured over it's preceding 7.x releases and I don't really see a point in going to an 8.0 basically just for some eye candy.
Just my opinion...

[airhead]

[quote author=Spot link=board=7;threadid=5193;start=0#51204 date=1033661720]

[gcc 3.2] doesn't really seem to be a major upgrade.
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GCC-3.2 is a major upgrade actually. It produces faster code and if combined with combreloc from binutils, it can make the system a heck of a lot faster (Think KDE)

[BurntAsh]

Mandrake 9.0 will totally beat Redhat 8.0's ass, Redhat screwed up.