On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:21:33AM +0200, Frédéric Bothamy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:39:12PM +0200, Jan T. Kim wrote:
> > I installed Debian r3.0 from the official CD set on a Sony notebook
> > computer, equipped with a 3com PCMCIA ethernet card:
> >
> > % cardctl ident
> > Socket 0:
> > product info: "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575BT", "LAN Cardbus Card",
> > "001"
> > manfid: 0x0101, 0x5157
> > function: 6 (network)
> > PCI id: 0x10b7, 0x5157
> >
> > After the initial installation, the network card worked fine, but then,
> > after switching the kernel to kernel-image-2.4.18-686, I could not get it
> > to work.
>
> [...]
>
> > I now have the following questions:
> >
> > * Have I overlooked something obvious?
>
> No, it is really not obvious until I digged through the kernel source
> files, from the 3c59x.c file :
>
> LK1.1.3 25 April 2000, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> - Merged with 3c575_cb.c
>
> You should then use the 3c59x.o module which is in every 2.4 Debian
> kernel (except the bf2.4 !).
Thanks, this seems to be the solution indeed. After manually installing
the 3c59x module, the network comes to life for this notebook.
Currently, I struggle to figure out how to persuade the system into
loading the module automatically. I think that things go amiss in the
/etc/pcmcia/config-2.4 file, in the section
card "3Com 3CCFE575B/3CXFE575B Fast EtherLink XL"
manfid 0x0101, 0x5157
bind "3c575_cb"
I've tried replacing that with
card "3Com 3CCFE575BT Megahertz PCMCIA Card"
manfid 0x0101, 0x5157
bind "3c59x"
and adding
devicd "3c59x"
class "network" module "3c59x"
but to no avail. How do I get the module to load automatically when
needed?
Greetinx & thanx in advance again, Jan
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