On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:09:40AM EST, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:06:58PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEM556", "LAN + 56k Modem", "" > > > > > > > > > > This looks like a 32-bit CardBus card, not a 16-bit PCMCIA card. > > The 3CCFEM556 is a 16-bit PCMCIA card, not a CardBus card. > > > > > Possibly there's a PCI ID missing from the 3c59x driver. What > > > does lspci tell you about the card? Do you have yenta_socket > > > loaded so you can see the card in the slot? > > > > Update: > > > > rebooted the debian "etch" installer and tried the 3c59x driver but > > am still getting the same result.. > > You're definately looking for the 3c574_cs driver in 2.6 kernels. > > pcmcia-cs-3.2.8 comes with a .cis and a .dat file for this card, have > you made the information within available to the 2.6 pcmcia drivers? > See http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/howto.html under > "2.5. The difficult cases: CIS overrides" > (Basically copy 3CCFEM556.dat to /lib/firmware/3CCFEM556.cis) > > > > are you suggesting that I might need a patched version so my modem/nic > > combo is recognized? > > I think it should just work.
It did. :-) With your excellent help, I should have been able to get this to work in about an hour but ran into a problem with the KME/SCSI card in the other slot that caused booting into my new install to fail. >From the messages before the crash, I eventually figured out that the problem was likely with this other card, so I physically removed it and was able to do a clean install. Since I wasn't sure where to look for the correct version of 3CCFEM556.dat, I told the installer that I didn't have a network card, rebooted into the new system .. found a 3CCFEM556.dat file in the /etc tree .. pcmcia Version 3.2.8, IIRC, copied/renamed it to /lib/firmware as 3CCFEM556.cis .. rebooted .. and sure enough "ifconfig -a" and other tell-tale signs such as boot-up messages and the light on the NIC's dongle coming on .. showed that the card had been recognized. After that it was just a matter of running dhclient to bring up eth0. I needed to add the magical "auto eth0" and "iface eth0 inet dhcp" to /etc/network/interfaces to ensure that all this is done automatically when I reboot .. and that was it. It just worked. I could kick myself for wasting so much time over what turns out to be a trivial problem. Once you know the solution of course. :-) Can't thank you enough for your help. Thanks, cga _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia