[Grml] grml 0.8: how to use my 3com pcmcia card?

[Michael Prokop]

* Werner Flamme <werner.flamme at ufz.de> [20060814 17:15]:

> I just installed grml 0.8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. There is no
> internal network card, so I use a pcmcia card, 3com's 589. The main problem
> of this machine are 64 MB RAM :-(

> "hwinfo --pcmcia" gives no output, so does "hwinfo --netcard".

> The modules pcmcia, yenta_socket, and 3c589_cs are loaded. Still ifconfig
> does not give me eth0 - "no device available". grml ;-)

> What modules do I have to install to make this card run? It worked with
> 0.7, so there may be a chance to run it on 0.8 too...

> On my VMWare, everything runs fine, but it's just a pcnet32 card...

Does booting with 'pci=assign-busses' help?

If not, can you please run grml-hwinfo and send me (off the list)
the resulting info.tar.bz2?

regards,
-mika-
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