Can someone help me find a location where I can download drivers for the 3C589D PCMCIA card. I am running RH7.1

Thanks!

You could poke around the www.redhat.com website, go through to the download site, and then just find it there, but that's the most well supported wired PCMCIA wired ethernet card there is. There shouldn't be any reason its not on your system. What seems to be the problem?

Cheers,

Finegan

Finegan,

Thanks. Being very new to Linux, I have sought out downloads for this particular card to no avail. If you can give me a link to where a download is, I'd appreciate it.

You also mention that the card driver should already be on my system? How would I know? Would this mean that I would need to load and configure this? Please advise....

The modules should be located in a directory called: /lib/modules/2.4.?-??/pcmcia (where the ?? denote the kernel minor version and the RedHat build number. I can't remember what RH7.1 runs by default, but its always the same.) In there should be a modules probably called 3c589_cs.o.gz (although that may be a little different). The drivers for PCMCIA devices stack as there is one for the pcmcia device, another for the bus itself, and then the module. From the command: 'lsmod' you should see (amongst many other things):

pcmcia_core
i82365 or tcic or yenta_socket
ds
3c589_cs

What exactly may be the issue as to why your card is not working probably has to do with one of those modules not loading. 'dmesg' will tell you what, if anything, has gone wrong with their loading.

Sorry it took so long for me to reply, I've got the flu.

Cheers,

Finegan

Finnegan,

Thanks. I managed to figure it out and get the network card up and running. Although there is no driver for my pcmcia card specifically, I found I was able to use another 3com version to suffice. I do have another issue however that I would like to see if you could help on:

I have a 3C575 PCMCIA card.
I also have a CISCO AIRONET 340 series wireless card.

If I run the Cisco linux drivers, it installs the card as eth0, essentially cancelling out my 3COM card. Is there a way to configure the system so that both cards can operate? Or must I have only one in at a time?

Lawless

Wireless in Linux is almost always a pain as the firmware on the card is usually a headache for driver hackers to figure out how to support. The Cisco card is on an open standard, and with cisco just being top notch about all of their gear, you actually have probably the best linux supported wireless card on the market. The wireless extension package, 'iwconfig', 'iwpriv', 'iwspy' all work brilliantly with Cisco kit.

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If I run the Cisco linux drivers, it installs the card as eth0, essentially cancelling
out my 3COM card. Is there a way to configure the system so that both cards
can operate? Or must I have only one in at a time?
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If I understand this question right, you've got 2 pcmcia ports on the laptop and if you swap out cards, it assigns the new one eth0 by default, but you want the new one, by itself in the slot, to be eth1? Typically, it with assign the eth addresses sequentially by which card was inserted first. However, if you start the machine... or restart pcmcia services with '/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart', it will assign the top card eth0 and the bottom eth1. Typically...

If you want each card to be assigned a different eth# based on card, there may be a way using one of the RedHat gui tools I'm not entirely used to, or modifying the file /etc/modules.conf like the following may work:

fin@horatio:~$ more /etc/modules.conf
alias net-pf-4 off # we won't use PF IPX
alias net-pf-5 off # we won't use PF AppleTalk
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 epic100

This is where the last part after 'alias eth#' is the card module that each card uses...

Depending on distro, and in some cases... version, that file is either read from to assign device numbers, or possibly written to and depricated. Hopefully in RH7.1's case, the former.

Oh, and if you hadn't already found it, the motherload of Cisco wireless and Linux info is here.

The 375 card is old school. Its been supported for 3 major kernels. It currently uses 3c575_cb.o, which should autoload just fine with card insertion, as long as its on the machine.

I just poked around a RedHat mirror for a while and found out why its such a pain to just find the modules... everything is a package, an RPM. What a headache! I can't even find an RPM for pcmcia-cs... although they probably used entirely in-kernel pcmcia.

Cheers,

Finegan