[Rule] slinky and pcmcia network card problem

[Bruno Wolff III]

I am attempting to install fedora core 5 on an old laptop.
The laptop has a pcmcia network card that currently works with redhat 6.2.
However it doesn't get activated when I try to do an httprpms install.
The device light does not come on. ifconfig does not see the device when
trying to bring eth0 up. The error message is:
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device

I tried using the slinky-0.5.05, a and b images and they all had the same
problem.

As far as I can tell the pcmcia functionallity is supposed to be compiled into
the kernel and I don't need to load a kernel module to make it work. There is a
pcmcia.sh script, but it refers to 2.6.9, so I think it is likely a relic from
the past.