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
This is *exactly* what I have (did you get yours from Linux Laptops too?) > with kernel 2.2.13p15. I have a patched 2.2.11, but I doubt this is the problem. > > 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. If you look at the results of "ifconfig eth0", is an IP address set? I did have to do some editing of the pcmcia startup scripts to get an IP address set via DHCP, and I have to manually restart dhcpcd-sv each time I plug into a new network, but this configuration works great for me. --Greg
