Topic: 3com card yet again

[GraemeDonaldson]

Right given up on my other 3com pcmcia card it just won't work, so i went out and bought my self a 3com 3ccfe575ct, which is in the driver list as that exact model number.

So i've put the card in and plugged it onto the network, and started up sme and it says network started ok. But no light comes on nor is there any access to from the laptop, the network just isn't running.

When i go into select the driver, i select it and press enter and go through but it says no changes made so i presume that it uses that 3c59x driver for all of them.

And i've also tested that my laptop can support card bus by installing xp and using a wireless cardbus pcmcia card successfully.

Please can anyone help this is the 3rd pcmcia card i've tried
thanks
Graeme

[Bill]

If you have not tried it yet, do a full install with that nic. It could be that you have incorrect drivers loaded.

[GraemeDonaldson]

Hi, yeh tried that but still not working, even tried installing 5.5 as well as 5.6 but no difference. Anybody know any sites to get 3com drivers for sme
(i take it that im searching for linux drivers not unix?)

Please help

[GraemeDonaldson]

Hi i found a howto in the contribution section but its for sme 4.1 and 4.2 so i followed it anyway, and used the lspci which brought up a list of hardware on the laptop and as mentioned in the howto the card was not found, so i followed the steps but it said that the pack that it suggested was older than the one in 5.6.

Obviously this would be true, so it said it was older than:

 "kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-18.src.rpm"

which is the one that comes with 5.6. So i continued on throught the howto and it told me to link the pcmcia to start with level7 of sme, so i typed in:

"ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S45pcmcia"

and pressed enter but im not sure if it did anything because it gave no confirmation and just went onto the next line with [root@server root]# but it didn't give an error message either so i presume it must of worked but restarted it and nothing new, no message saying "starting pcmcia" so not worked.

I went back into the command line and typed in lspci but came up with the same list.

So not sure but no pcmcia driver seems to be loaded or loading

Please help again

[GraemeDonaldson]

Sorted it, all i done was download ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9.i386.rpm

put it onto cd

mounted the cd rom

installed by using this http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/e-smith-pcmcia-howto-0.1-01.txt

read through it but use the above rpm pak instead then type in that command:

"ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S45pcmcia" very important u put a capital S before the 45pcmcia or it won't work

to link the pcmcia to the startup process and hey presto it worked.

Hope this helps anyone else