Re: tlug: 3Com 589 PC Card

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:28:49PM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> I recently got an older-but-good notebook machine (a DEC HiNote Ultra
> CT475, a machine that you would not believe dates to 1994 or 1995 if you
> saw it, and it even has a trackball)

I've seen an old DEC notebook that a colleague here has.  Nice machine.

> I picked up a 3Com 589 card for
> it, but I'm having a problem.
> 
> cardmgr [16]  Unsupported card in socket 1.  Product info:
> "3com","Megahertz 589E","TP/BNC LAN PC Card","005"
> 
> cardmgr [16] manfid 0x0101,0x0589 function: 6 (network)

I had similar problems with an "aftermarket" driver for a Logitec SCSI
adapter.  What you do (after pausing to hope that the card matches the
driver you're about to force on it) is edit the file /etc/pcmcia/config.

For the above, you would add something like:

card "That blasted 3Com card that I have been fighting with"
  version "3com", "Megahertz 589E","*","*"
  bind "3c589_cs"

When the card manager is next started, it should recognize the card
and load the 3c589_cs driver.  And they all lived happily ever after.

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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