PC Card with Linux

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So I installed Linux Mint XFCE on my Armada m700 and I rely greatly on the pc cards, but I can't get any card to work. I looked online and found no help there that I could understand. Anyone know what to do?

Pc cards I need to get to work:
Linksys EC2T Ethernet/Token ring card
Offbrand Generic 4 port USB 2.0

PC cards are also known as PCMCIA... Have you gone to the main site to get the drivers directly for the OS in question?

Pc card is easier to remember, and I did search for the driver but I only came up with Windows drivers

Sometimes you can use Windows drivers in conjunction with ndiswrapper. However, I've never had PCMCIA issues and so don't know how to troubleshoot those yet.

USB should be on the system board as well (unless it's a really old systm). I don't know from the actual counterpart to the device listings, but at least they should show up.

you might also check with the flavor of Linux's web site (I only know of Ubuntu and Red Hat..., and see if they have some generic drivers.

Also, see if the companies have on-line or phone live tech support. They might be able to help (if you can understand what they're saying, and they're not reading from a piece of paper...

supahneko, one of those cards is your lan connection? An appropriate driver may be in the repositories, but not in the install media. Sounds like a catch 22 situation?

lspci and lspci -v | grep subordinate don't turn up your card info? Once you have that it should be as easy as modprobe whateverdiver, or maybe use ndiswrapper and load that.

I popped in a XUbuntu cd and it worked fine, so I'll juust install that (only thing I did to Mint was change the theme so no loss but time)