[lug] Re: PCMCIA NIC problems

[Ferdinand Schmid]

HI,
By now I have also tried to install the latest KRUD on this system.  Again the 
system doesn't recognize my 3COM PCMCIA NIC (3CXFE575CT).
It looks like I may just need to give up and use an older 3com card or a D-Link 
card.  I would have really liked to avoid carrying a "pigtail" on my laptop! 
Strange that this card works in Windows and with Kernel 2.2 on this laptop - and 
with Kernel 2.4 on other laptops.

Ferdinand

Ferdinand Schmid wrote:

> This message didn't seem to go out earlier so I am trying it again...
> Ferdinand.
> 
> HI,
> I am in the process of upgrading my laptop (IBM TP240) to kernel 2.4.
> Under 2.2 I had my ethernet card, a 3COM 3CXFE575CT working properly.
> After my upgrade this very same card doesn't work anymore.  Based on the
> PCMCIA docs it should be supported - and it works fine in a
> Dell Latitude laptop running an identical version of Linux.
> 
> When I insert the modem my syslog states that an unknown card was
> inserted:
> Jul 10 08:44:04 fps cardmgr[218]: unsupported card in socket 0
> Jul 10 08:44:04 fps kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 0): vendor 0x8086, device
> 0x7192
> Jul 10 08:44:04 fps cardmgr[218]:   no product info available
> Jul 10 08:44:04 fps cardmgr[218]:   PCI id: 0x8086, 0x7192
> 
> Looking at the config file for pcmcia this particular card should have:
> manfid 0x0101 and model 0x5257
> 
> Other cards that I didn't expect to work - like my D-Link wireless LAN
> card work just fine.  Xfree86 4.0 had a terrible time setting up as
> well.  I had to run the configuration tool with acceleration disabled to
> get it to run in the first place.
> 
> I am trying to install SuSE 7.2 on this laptop but have also tried all
> the standard configuration tools, not just the SuSE ones (no YAST 1,2).
> 
> Any ideas what might be going on?
> 
> Ferdinand
> 
> 


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