PCMCIA Card Suitability with SuSE / User experience

The experience described on
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/linux-laptop/2002-July/000525.html was
correct for my configuration also. I purchased the D-Link DFE-690TXD
32-Bit Cardbus 10/100 PC Card today at Fry's (If you need one, you pay
Fry's $19.99 + tax by 4/30/03, mail in the rebate request by 5/30/03 to
receive $10.00 back for a net of $9.99 + the taxes). Installation was more
complicated on W98SE than on SuSE 8.0 On SuSE, you plug in the PC Card,
power up under SuSE, use Control Center/YAST to define the Network Card and
Basic Network, reboot the computer (I suspect that that there is probably a
CLI method to avoid the reboot) and connect to the Internet.

At 10:41 4/28/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:28:06 -0700
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>From: Fred Wright <fawright@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: PCMCIA Card Suitability with SuSE / User experience
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
>Thanks for the input; I hadn't found that site.
>
>At 07:36 4/28/03 -0700, you wrote:
> >Message: 8
> >From: Kurt Granroth <kurt@granroth.org>
> >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >Subject: Re: PCMCIA Card Suitability with SuSE / User experience
> >Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:20:27 -0700
> >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >
> >On Sunday 27 April 2003 01:48 pm, Fred Wright wrote:
> > > The following is on sale at Fry's with a mail-in rebate making the cost
> > > <$10. Does anyone have experience with this card under Linux (I am
> > > specifically looking for SuSE support). Information on
> > > http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ is sparse.
> > >
> > > D-Link DFE-690TXD 32-Bit Cardbus 10/100 PC Card
> >
> >No personal experience, but a very quick search on google for "suse
> >dfe-690txd" came up with this link:
> >
> >http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/linux-laptop/2002-July/000525.html
> >
> >With the following quote:
> >
> >"If the machine you buy doesn't have built-in Ethernet, I can recommend the
> >D-Link DFE-690TXD adapter or the Xircom adapters. For SuSE 8.0, both of
> >these are *literally* plug-and-play except that you have to configure the
> >usual IP parameters. But hardware detection is 100% automatic."


--
Fred Wright
fawright@earthlink.net