3c574 NIC support with recent 2.6 kernels.

[cga2000]

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