I have an old laptop with a 3Com nic/modem combo PC card that works fine with 2.4 kernels.
$ cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEM556", "LAN + 56k Modem", "" manfid: 0x0101, 0x0556 function: 0 (multifunction) Recent distros that I have tried to install and a few live CD's are unable to detect the presence of an ethernet card on this laptop even after I load the 3c564_cs module manually. Since I have tried at least a dozen of the above and keep running into the same problem, my guess is that support for this model has been dropped from pcmcia with recent 2.6 kernels. Is anyone aware of a workaround for this problem -- even if it means buying a different pc card -- or does this mean that I need to purchase a new laptop with a regular PCI NIC..? I have googled for possible solutions to this problem for over a year and have not found anything useful so far. Thanks, cga _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
