I am not familiar with PCMCIA devices, are they NE2000 compliant? I can
only offer suggestions as I haven't installed on a laptop before.
My thoughts:
Have you tried doing a NE2000 modprobe for the device? In
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules you can uncomment the card if it is in there. Again,
I am not familiar with PCMCIA cards but I would find it very hard to
believe that a 3comm 3c589 wasn't supported. Have you tried going to the
3comm website and checking for drivers? have you looked at card services
utility? info
at: http://eoni.linux.tucows.com/conhtml/preview/017-013-007-005C.html , I
hear it is a nice support package for PCMCIA devices. If you find the
module then just drop it in /lib/modules/2.2.16/net/ and then put
/sbin/modprobe 3C589 (or whatever modules is called) in
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules.
other ways using depmod/lsmod/insmod etc. as well. Above method has
worked for me.
hey, just found a link for you with drivers, hopefully it will work:
http://www.mhz.com/support/all.cfm?model=3C589C%2DTP
Have you seen this already?
/frank
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:02:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Gregor Diseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: NIC recognition.
>
> Thanks to all who wrote re: my NFS install question for Slackware.
>
> I need to install to a laptop, and I'm going to use my Linux box instead
> of trying to run an NFS server from Windoze.
>
> There are 4 install disks that I made for the install: boot, root, PCMCIA
> and network. All of these disks are asked for in turn, and load just
> fine. However, the network disk does not have a driver for my NIC-- it
> tried to auto-detect several dozen others. The NIC is a 3com 3C589C - a
> very common PCMCIA nic.
>
> The question: How do I find and add an apropriate driver to the network
> disk, so this thing is recognized?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Gregor
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* Oregon Public Networking - Eugene, OR */
>
>
