pppoeconf cannot find working ethernet card
Dear List,
I have a similar problem to one mentioned by Doug on 30 January. Maybe
the same answer would serve both of us:
My system seems to identify my NIC, but when I run pppoeconf to
configure for hooking up to DSL, pppoeconf responds that no ethernet
card was found.
Hardware: IBM ThinkPad770 with 256 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive.
PCMCIA Sockets: TI PCI-1250 CardBus controller
NIC: FEM656C-3Com Global 10-100+56k CardBus pc
OS: kernel 2.4.18-586tsc
PCMCIA Modules: ds, pcmcia_core, yenta_socket
In KDE>Control Center>PCI>, the NIC is identified as:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3CCFEM656 [id 6564]
Cyclone Cardbus (rev 10)
Which seems to be correct.
However, on boot, the NIC only flashes red once, and the one time I
hot-plugged it in, it flashed red once. I have no idea what beeps might
have occurred, because sound does not work (and reading this mailing
list, it looks like it is not even worth trying to get sound to work).
Also, the only PCMCIA module that installed by default with the system
was pcmcia_core. I had to install ds and I tried to install i82365, but
installation of the latter failed. Thanks to this mailing list I knew
that yenta_socket was another driver that might work instead of i82365,
but so far I have found no documentation on yenta_socket. I installed it
anyway (since it would install), but now I have no way of knowing
whether it may be part of the reason I cannot run pppoeconf.
Pietro
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