dormitory server works with windoze fine, but not redhat 7.1

[SynapticBurst]

hi, i'm a very annoyed computer enthusiast. Last year, i had att@home cable access, and it worked fine (on both win me, and red hat 7.0) I had to do a little ifconfig'ing, and editting some files, but the cable connection worked fine on my linux laptop. The pc card was an smc model. Now, while freshly installin RH7.1, my pccard wasn't even detected during installation. So i was like, ok, I'll just try to configure it after installation- to no avail. Hence, as my ethernet card DID work with my Cable service, i figured that the University Dormitory internet service must've favored Microsoft. So, is there any way that i can use the Microsoft-preferred network on my linux box? Sincerely SynBurst

[slacker_x]

Are you sure that red hat 7.1 is finding the card correctly?

Might have nothing to do with the network. Did you receive special instructions on how to setup your computer to work with the network?

[SynapticBurst]

the only internet instructions were for Win 9x/nt, and Apple Pc'z. I know that there are a few binaries i can run that will determine if rh7.1 detected anything. When i use netcfg, the only device listed is loc (localhost.localdomain), and nothing special.
I have been able to type in
"ifconfig eth0 <ip add>
netmask <subnetinfo> up"
but when i try:
"route add default gateway <gateway ip>"
there is an error message that says network could not be found. So i'm assuming that the device was found, but the network could not

[Helical Cynic]

Do an lsmod and see what modules are loaded. You may need to load a module manually (or in one of the startup files) for your NIC. You also will want to make sure that PCMCIA support is being loaded. Sometimes that takes a little tweaking as well.