[ltp] A21p - Which Ether/Modem?

[chris denesha]

Let's do some digging in my archives of this list...

Ok, this info is from others, as my A21m just came in, and I haven't tried 
myself yet:

If you are going with the mini-PCI connections from IBM, stay away from 
3COM because of the reasons Paul mentioned below.  Only the networking will 
work.  Here is a link that supports this:

http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/

I don't see much hard data, but the Intel mini-PCI network and modem should 
work (it looks like the modem is a Xircom that works with Lucent winmodem 
drivers).

However, if you are going with a PCMCIA card solution (which I suspect, 
otherwise you probably would have purchased a Thinkpad model with the 
mini-PCI network card already installed) there are solutions, including 
3COM (which I usually choose if I have a choice) that are known to work.

Check out the Hardware Howto, section 27.10 MultiFunction Cards:

http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html#toc27

At another place in the same Howto it says this:

"All PCMCIA modems should work with the PCMCIA drivers"

hope this helps,

chris

At 11:42 AM 03/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>With the 3com minipci module, my ethernet is supported under Kernel
>2.2.18 release, and the modem is a non linux supported DSP chipset (aka a
>winmodem)
>None of the drivers I have found support the 3com minipci modem.
>-Paul Timmins
>
>"Ronald W. Heiby" wrote:
>
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> > Hello linux-thinkpad,
> >
> > I just purchased an A21p. It came with Win2K and a modem-only module.
> > I would like to hook this up to networks, so plan to purchase (soon)
> > one of the combination modem/Ethernet modules. I understand that there
> > are more than one of these, made by different manufacturers (Intel,
> > 3Com, and Lucent?).
> >
> > I have been using RedHat 6.2 on my 770ED with reasonable success, and
> > plan to continue using it with the A21p, unless forced by this to
> > something else.
> >
> > Has anyone a definative statement as to whether any of these can
> > operate under Linux, both modem and network functions? If so, which of
> > them? With what additional driver software, if any? With which
> > version(s) of Linux, if any in particular are required?
> >
> > Thanks! Ron.


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