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New: Here is the XF86Config config file if anyone is having problems, it might help? I had a request for it earlier so I decided to put it up on my webpage incase anyone else needed it for reference or whatever reason. Keep in mind you will need to right click on the link, then click save link as)

Unfortunately, Linux doesn't recognize the PCMCIA cards during installation. Therefore I could not get my network up that easily. I had no clue about the display screen and such, so I started guessing. I actually found a great display, it was pretty funny. While you are installing Redhat, when you come to the part where it asks you to test your Xconfigurator settings and display type, select Custom Monitor, Super VGA, 1024x768 @ 87 interlaced, 800x600 @ 56 Hz, then most important, the range of 40-150. It is 800x600, but it is 24 bits I believe.

When Linux finished installing (I had no other problems besides choosing my Xconfigurator settings) I rebooted my laptop and proceeded to watch Linux load up.

One thing I don't like about the booting is that it tries to initialize my ethernet card BEFORE it enables PCMCIA support. Pretty stupid. At any rate, I logged in, and everything appeared to work fine. I downloaded netup from my file archives, (note: you will need to type chmod +x netup to make it executable, and change the settings in the file to accommodate you) which helped me setup my pcmcia ethernet card. All I had to do was copy netup to /usr/bin and then i ran it by typing "netup". I was automatically part of the network. If you have any problems with this, let me know, I spent weeks figuring all this stuff out so I'm sure I can help you! Personally, I pico /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add a line (anywhere) that is: netup which basically loads your ethernet card at boot time!

Thanks to Fred Haab for the following information to fix the "NIC before PCMCIA" problem:

Go to your default run level directory (in my case it's /etc/rc.d/rc3.d) and simply change the name of the pcmcia to be alphabetically before the networking. For example, pcmcia scripts were S40pcmcia and networking scripts were S10network. Type mv S40pcmcia S09pcmcia and PCMCIA will now load first.