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Re: Trouble using 3Com ethernet/modem



Lance Heller wrote:
> 
> I have a 3Com 3CCFEM556 10/100BaseT/56K ethernet/modem pcmcia card
> in my Chembook (Asus) F7400 notebook running a fortified Debian
> Slink distribution with kernel 2.2.13p15.

I have a 3Com 3CCFEM556B (Is that the same?), and it work's fine for me.
I use slink and I upgraded my kernel to 2.2.12 WITH pcmcia-cs-3.1.2 +
pcmcia-modules-2.2.12.

> Briefly, the problem I see is that I'm unable to use the ethernet
> interface until and unless I establish a PPP session on the modem.
> Once the PPP session is set up, everything works normally and the
> PPP session can be terminated without effecting operation of the
> ethernet interface.  Before starting the PPP session, cardinfo
> reports the card ready, finds interfaces eth0 and ttyS2, and
> otherwise appears normal. The routing table is also correct and
> ifconfig report eth0 to be up and properly configured.

PPP works fine as well.

When the cardmgr is running, you should hear 2 beeps when you
insert you 3Com card: one beep for the Ethernet interface and
the other beep for the modem. When you do 'lsmod' you should
see '3c574_cs' for the Ethernet interface and the other
module loaded for the modem (can't remember the name).
You should be able to do 'ifconfig eth0' then.

Regards,
Kenneth


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