I just downloaded slitaz 3.0 to install it on my old toshiba laptop using a 3com wired network adapter to connect to my router. The model number of the adapter is 3CCFE574BT. The network card is not detected, lspci does not mention anything like 3com Ethernet adapter. Does anybody know whether this card is supported or how I can use it?
With ethernet adapter plugged in use pccardctl status , pccardctl ident, pccardctl info ,pccardctl eject ,pccardctl insert commands. Give us whatever info you can from above commands or applicable errors from /var/log/messages
this is terrific, thanks a lot in advance for your help. pcmciautils was already installed, and I executed the modprobe command again. Below you find the information I collected:
lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03) 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12) 00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port Type-O (rev 23) 00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
pccardctl: status: Socket 0: no card Socket 1: 5.0V 16-bit PC Card Subdevice 0 (function 0) [unbound]
ident: Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 574B", "B", "001" manfid: 0x0101, 0x0574 function: 6 (network)
I did some research in the web in the meantime and I believe that I need to install the module 3c574_cs. Do you agree? As I am new to SliTaz-Linux I do not know how to handle this. Do I need to rebuild the kernel with the appropriate settings, or can I find the compiled module and load it using modprobe?
Yes the 3c574_cs module is correct. I run slitaz 3.0 and modprobe -l | grep 3c574_cs returns /lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.ko.gz #modprobe 3c574_cs then run ifconfig to see if adapter is installed if so add pcmcia and 3c574_cs to /etc/rcS.conf LOAD_MODULES= add the adapter name from ifconfig to /etc/network.conf INTERFACE=" " ,make WIFI="no" you may be able to connect without a reboot: #/etc/init.d/network.sh restart