[ltp] pcmcia question

[Michael Herron]

This is a followup to my original post.  FYI for those interested...

It turns out that the floppy drive on my i1481 is defective (argh! and
I have only had the machine for five days!)  IBM had me bring the unit
to a repair place, and while there I borrowed one of their pcmcia
modems - it is a US Robotics/Megahertz XJ4288.

I inserted the XJ4288 in the pcmcia slot and heard two high-pitched
beeps.  According to lsmod the modem was in ttyS1, so I ran modemtool
and minicom initialized and appeared to work fine.  There were no
errors in /var/log/messages, unlike the situation described below.
This makes me suspect that the problem I am having is the 3ccfem556b
as opposed to pcmcia on my machine in general.

Any comments would be appreciated...

Michael

Michael Herron writes:
 > 
 > I have a 3com 3ccfem556b ethernet/modem card.  It is on the supported
 > list for pcmcia as shipped with RH 6.1.
 > 
 > When I put in the card, I get a high beep and then a low beep,
 > indicating some sort of failure.  I looked at /sbin/lsmod and the
 > correct driver (3c574_cs) is being picked up.  But, when I look at
 > messages in /var/log I see that cardmgr (start cmd in particular)
 > exits with status 1 (error??)  after "./network start eth0" and "+
 > usage: ifup <device name>."
 > 
 > Machine is a thinkpad i1480.
 > 
 > Any ideas on how to fix this?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Michael
 > 
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