Re: Installing a 3COM FE574BT PCMCIA card

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:27:28PM +0800, Yang Yiqi wrote:
> I am also a brand new newbie (about a couple of weeks old ;-) but I am trying 
> to share a bit of my experience and hope it might be of some help.
> 
> I installed my 3CFE575 PC card(with some model sufix I do not remember and I 
> am connected to the Internet now on my ADSL PPPoE connection on this card so 
> I can't unplug it to check). The system did not say anything about find the 
> device when I booted up my notebook with the card in.  I then started "System 
> Settings" -> "Network" and manually add the device.  I did not see an entry 
> for my PC card but only 3C59x.  So I selected "Other Ethernet Cards" and 
> selected 3CFE574 and set the device to Eth1.  It worked but I always got a 
> prompt that the type of ethernet device has an alias different from the 
> default.  I then modified the file "modules.conf" in \etc and removed the 
> line associated with the alias for eth1.  The prompt eventually went away.
> 
> I guess if you do not see an entry in "neat" (the network configuration 
> utility seemed to be called this way) you can try to add it manually.  Not 
> sure if it will work as I am running RH 8.0.
> 
> YYQ
> 
> 
> ?? ?????? 27 ?????? 2002 06:05??Chris Myers ??????
> > I am brand new to Linux and I have set up a Toshiba Satellite 4300 laptop
> > with a 3Com FE574BT network card in a dual boot configuartion with Win2000
> > and Redhat Linux 7.3. Redhat does not find the NIC card. Can anyone guide
> > me through the steps to install the device on my laptop?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > CM

I have a Thinkpad running a 3Com 3cxem556b (10B-T/Modem) card, but it
was set up long before neat.  My modules.conf has "alias eth0
3c589_cs".

If you don't know what module is being loaded, run (as root) "lsmod".
If it's not obvious which one it is, unplug the card (which should
unload the driver), and run lsmod again, and compare the two lists.
Then put that module name as an alias for eth0 in /etc/modules.conf.

When you plug the card in, if you don't get two beeps indicating
successful module loading, run "service pcmcia restart".  Then you may
also have to restart "network".

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.