[ltp] 3com 3c556b mini pci lan + modem on thinkpad x20

[Darrell Shively]

marco signoretto wrote:
> 
> hi everybody,
> i'm tring to have my nic works on linux. since no distributions seems to
> support this network card, i'm looking for someone has installed it on his
> thinkpad. i found a driver on
>  http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/
> but my experience in compiling modules of kernel is very poor, so i could'n
> manage to have my card working. i'm actualy using caldera OpenLinux 2.4 but
> i would use any other distribution (possibly red hat 6.2 or 7 or suse 7) if
> it is useful to semplify the procedure. can anyone help me?
> thanks in advice
> Marco
> 
> please help me: at the moment i'm caming around like a crazy cow! (the
> situation is very critical, i don't wont to me murdered!!)    :-))

I got it to work for me with RedHat 7.0 after upgrading to the 2.2.18
kernel.

If you are building a custom kernel (I did), you can try to use my
kernel .config file.
It can be found here:
	ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/dash/tpx20_config

I recently upgraded to the 2.4.0 kernel and ran into difficulties
getting the NIC to resume properly.  This was fixed by switching to the
2.4.1 (3c59x.c-2.4.1-pre3-1).

For the simplest solution, go with 2.2.18.

  regards,
	- dash
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