Re: Card recommendations (was Re: pcmcia custom installation)
Gary Hennigan wrote:
>
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:
> > >> What card are you trying to support?
> > >
> > > It's a 3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN + 56K modem card. Unfortunately I
> > > read in SUPPORTED.CARDS that it uses a Winmodem. Oh well, I can use my
> > > old 10M card for modem and the new one for ethernet. Is there a way to
> > > disable one part of a combo card, eg., disable the ethernet on the old
> > > card so that only the modem part of the card is used?
> > >
> >
> > if cardmgr can't use the device, it will ignore it. So the modem
> > part will be ignored.
>
> Well, in my scenario I'd be using the old 10M + 56k card for just a
> modem. All of it works, but I'd like to disable the Enet part of that
> card and use the Enet from the new 656C card.
>
> > > Additionally, the new card isn't recognized by the PCMCIA software. I
> > > get the following on the console when I insert it:
> > >
> > > Aug 29 17:03:21 saix3449 cardmgr[145]: initializing socket 1
> > > Aug 29 17:03:21 saix3449 cardmgr[145]: unsupported card in socket 1
> > > Aug 29 17:03:22 saix3449 cardmgr[145]: product info: "3Com Corporation",
> > > "3CXFEM656C-LAN", "LAN", "1"
> > > Aug 29 17:03:22 saix3449 cardmgr[145]: manfid: 0x0102, 0x6564 function: 6
> > > (network)
> > >
> >
> > verify that the manfid it returns matches the one in
> > /etc/pcmcia/network.<something> (laptop at home, doing this from
> > memory).
>
> Yeah, I just spotted a post in comp.os.linux.portable that says I may
> need to use the Beta PCMCIA stuff to make it work by default.
>
> >
> > You may have to add a line for that manfid. If so, mail David Hinds (pcmcia
> > maintainer) so he can use it from now on.
> >
> > > It may have something to do with the ID string my card is feeding > Anyone have a good suggestion for a 10/100 + 56k card
> that works out of the box with pcmcia-cs-3.1.19?
When you are talking about 3com PC cards, you have to specify very
exactly which card you mean. For instance, I also have a 3com combo
56k modem 10/100 baseT card, and it works quite well with out of the box
PCMCIA stuff, from what I originally had with a 2.2.10 kernel and 3.1.8
PCMCIA, to what I have now with a 2.2.16 kernel and 3.1.18 PCMCIA. It is
supported out of the box. It is a model 3CCFEM556 B. I have also used
two different wireless cards with the latest kernel/PCMCIA
configuration. One is a Lucent WaveLAN (now called "Orinoco") and the
other is a Proxim Symphony card. The Symphony card was recently written
up in Linux Journal; it requires a driver from a web site but it was
easy to add support for it to the PCMCIA config file once I had the
kernel module compiled and installed (unfortunately the Symphony cards,
although they work very well for me at home, are not 802.11b compliant
so I ended up having to buy the WaveLAN card too).
BTW, it is my experience that you are better off maintaining the kernel
and its driver modules (including PCMCIA) by hand rather than using the
Debian packaging system (or Red Hat's for that matter). You also have to
remember to recompile all the kernel modules (again including PCMCIA)
whenever you upgrade your kernel.
--Greg
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