Lance Heller wrote: > > I have a 3Com 3CCFEM556 10/100BaseT/56K ethernet/modem pcmcia card > in my Chembook (Asus) F7400 notebook running a fortified Debian > Slink distribution with kernel 2.2.13p15.
I have a 3Com 3CCFEM556B (Is that the same?), and it work's fine for me. I use slink and I upgraded my kernel to 2.2.12 WITH pcmcia-cs-3.1.2 + pcmcia-modules-2.2.12. > Briefly, the problem I see is that I'm unable to use the ethernet > interface until and unless I establish a PPP session on the modem. > Once the PPP session is set up, everything works normally and the > PPP session can be terminated without effecting operation of the > ethernet interface. Before starting the PPP session, cardinfo > reports the card ready, finds interfaces eth0 and ttyS2, and > otherwise appears normal. The routing table is also correct and > ifconfig report eth0 to be up and properly configured. PPP works fine as well. When the cardmgr is running, you should hear 2 beeps when you insert you 3Com card: one beep for the Ethernet interface and the other beep for the modem. When you do 'lsmod' you should see '3c574_cs' for the Ethernet interface and the other module loaded for the modem (can't remember the name). You should be able to do 'ifconfig eth0' then. Regards, Kenneth
