On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:09:40AM EST, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:06:58PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEM556", "LAN + 56k Modem", "" > > > > > > > > > > This looks like a 32-bit CardBus card, not a 16-bit PCMCIA card. > > The 3CCFEM556 is a 16-bit PCMCIA card, not a CardBus card. > > > > > Possibly there's a PCI ID missing from the 3c59x driver. What > > > does lspci tell you about the card? Do you have yenta_socket > > > loaded so you can see the card in the slot? > > > > Update: > > > > rebooted the debian "etch" installer and tried the 3c59x driver but > > am still getting the same result.. > > You're definately looking for the 3c574_cs driver in 2.6 kernels. > > pcmcia-cs-3.2.8 comes with a .cis and a .dat file for this card, have > you made the information within available to the 2.6 pcmcia drivers? > See http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/howto.html under > "2.5. The difficult cases: CIS overrides" > (Basically copy 3CCFEM556.dat to /lib/firmware/3CCFEM556.cis) > > > > are you suggesting that I might need a patched version so my modem/nic > > combo is recognized? > > I think it should just work.
Light at the end of the tunnel? Thank you very much -- I've been stuck on a debian etch install for over a year because of this .. and together with the howto pointer .. this is just about the first time I feel like I am -- at last .. making some kind of progress. I won't have the time to do this tonight but my guess is that before the network hardware detection step in the install, I should switch to a shell and check the contents of /lib/firmware and if the relevant "cis" is not there, I should be able to copy it over from my sarge 2.4.27 system. If this doesn't work, I could always skip the network steps in the install and do it after I reboot the newly-installed system. Just have to check the 2.6 pcmcia howto for the details such as whether I need to download a more recent version of CCCFEM556.dat/.cis. Thanks a bunch, cga _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
