3com LAN PC Card 3c589d-combo causes problemsForum: Networking Topic: 3com LAN PC Card 3c589d-combo causes problems started by: Eofær Posted by Eofær on Mar. 28 2005,22:04
My very first experience with DSL today showed a problem with my LAN PC card. It is a 3com 3c589d-combo, my notebook is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480 CDT. When I boot from CD-ROM in the normal boot mode the booting process stalls after indicating what kind of CPU it is (Mobile Intel Pentium MMX 233Mhz).If I choose failsafe boot mode it runs properly, but as this mode skips the PCMCIA detection I don´t have network access. When I try to connect the PC card after booting failsafe, it does not recognize the LAN card (not supported). Does anybody have an idea which driver I can use (search engines did not really help) and explain how I can install this? THX in advance! Posted by AwPhuch on Mar. 28 2005,22:47
How long did you wait when it stuck?It might take a min or two to push thru the detection unfortunately Brian AwPhuch Posted by Eofær on Mar. 28 2005,23:48
Ooops - maybe not long enough. I ´ll try it with more than two minutes waiting. Pete (Eofær) Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 29 2005,03:18
If not, try this boot command:dsl vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nofirewire noagp nomce xmodule=vesa It is basically "failsafe" but with pcmcia support allowed. Posted by Eofær on Mar. 30 2005,16:34
Yesterday I tried it with the latest version of Knoppix. It is NOT the LAN PC card, Knoppix runs fine and I get a network connection. Still, I will try it with your recommendation for DSL, because Knoppix seems to be a bit too "mighty" for my old notebook, it runs real slow with it.Thanks! Regards Pete |