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Posted: Oct. 06 2006,03:45 QUOTE
I have a ThinkPad 365ED (old - 500HD/24RAM) with a 16bit 3Com 10/100 LAN PC Card (pcmcia). DSL finds the card during boot up but that's as far as I can go. We get no signal from the network at all. I believe I need a Linux driver for it. The model is 3CCFE574BT. Does anyone have one or a generic driver that will work?
Will this card work at all with DSL or do I need to find a different card?
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Posted: Oct. 06 2006,06:26 QUOTE
What version of DSL are you using? Have a look at dmesg to see if there are any errors reported when it finds the card.
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Posted: Oct. 08 2006,22:02 QUOTE
andrewb,
I'm using the latest (3.0.1?), downloaded last week.

We got it figured out. Turned out to be a bad cable. Switched to a new one and - wha-la it worked. One issue I did encounter was the laptop freeezing up when I tried to get to a 2nd or 3rd page in a web site. The main one came up fine. The 2nd (forum) froze me up, not even any movement from the mouse. I figure it's the low RAM problem rearing it's ugly head AGAIN. Do you know if there is a way to use virtual RAM on the HD? I have a lot of HD space left over from the install.
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Posted: Oct. 08 2006,22:43 QUOTE
You can use a swap partition or a swapfile.
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