> 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.... > > 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. The pcmcia-cs- version matters, too. Anyway, if dhcpcd-sv is trying to initialize the card, that could interfere with initialization. If you don't want dhcp, and the script is trying to run it, then
killall -HUP dhcpcd-sv will shut it down. Also, if you are trying to use eth0 after a suspend/resume cycle, you might have to pop the card out and back in, just to re-initialize the driver modules. It might be worthwhile putting the software (cardctl) equivalent of that in a /etc/apm/event.d script. A better alternative might be to build the pcmcia-cs-3.1.3 modules, which may handle suspend/resume better. When installing, be sure to rescue your /etc/pcmcia/network script from being clobbered. Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
