Hello everyone,

I have been trying to troubleshoot this problem for about three days now and I really need some help.

My 3Com OfficeConnect 10/100 LAN PC Card with XJACK Connector Model 3CXSH572BT is being detected by Linux Mandrake 10 (download edition) as "Anonymous Memory" and will not load.

I have googled about this issue and have found various postings around the net about people having similar problems but most of those threads peter out with no solution or the situations were only "similar" (i.e. same symptom but different LAN card). I searched the forums here and basically found the same info as on the net at large.

Here is the setup that I am using:

Mandrake Linux 10 download edition
3Com 3CXSH572BT - (yes it is on the compatability lists)
Dell Latitude CPi R Series
128MB RAM

BTW this setup worked with the Mandrake Linux 9.x series (also download editions) but those were with the 2.4 kernel if I remember correctly.

Here is a snippet from my syslog:
Jun 7 09:46:06 localhost pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services:
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr[671]: watching 2 sockets
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost cardmgr[671]: watching 2 sockets
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost cardmgr[672]: starting, version is 3.2.5
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost pcmcia: done.
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost cardmgr[672]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost cardmgr[672]: modprobe exited with status 1
Jun 7 09:46:08 localhost cardmgr[672]: bind 'memory_cs' to socket 1 failed: Invalid argument

Here is my lspcidrake -v
intel-agp : Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:7190)

unknown : Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:7191)

yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI1225 PC Card Controller [BRIDGE_CARDBUS] (vendor:104c device:ac1c subv:4000 subd:0000)

yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI1225 PC Card Controller [BRIDGE_CARDBUS] (vendor:104c device:ac1c subv:4800 subd:0000)

unknown : Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ISA [BRIDGE_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:7110)

unknown : Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 IDE [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:8086 device:7111)

usb-uhci : Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:7112)

sonypi : Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ACPI - Bus Master IDE Controller [BRIDGE_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:7113)

Card:NeoMagic MagicMedia (laptop/notebook): Neomagic Corporation|NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10c8 device:0006 subv:1028
subd:008b)

nm256_audio : Neomagic Corporation|[MagicMedia 256AV] [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:10c8 device:8006 subv:1028 subd:008b)

unknown : Linux 2.6.3-7mdk uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub] (vendor:0000 device:0000)

If anyone can help that woudl be great!

Thanks