Desperate to get laptop on office network

[Ethan]

I have a Toshiba laptop with a Farallon version of a 3com 3c589 Ethernet card (PCMCIA card). I know the card works in that machine under Windows. However, Linux does not detect the card.

What can I do to get Linux to detect the card? Maybe I have to download a driver. I don't even know where to start.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- E

[bugfix]

Chances are its NE2000 compatible so it should work without changing anything. Mine did.

[bdg1983]

Have you tried 3Com's support/driver site? Also http://www.linux-laptop.net/ may help.

[ronmon]

Ethan, the Linux Documentation Project's official HOWTO lists are a very good place to start. Do yourself a favor and bookmark these two links:

LDP HOWTOs (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html)

LDP Mini HOWTOs (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html)

I recently set up a 3Com 3c575bt on my lappy and I was able to find all the info there that was necessary to get it working. You will probably find the Networking-Overview, Ethernet and PCMCIA HOWTOs helpful.

Basically, you have to make sure that the card controller itself is working and then load the module for your card aliased as eth0. Something like this in /etc/modules.conf:

alias eth0 3c575_cb

Read the HOWTOs for all the gory details.

[Ethan]

Thanks for the suggestions. I wasn't aware of those LDP HOWTOs. I'll check them out.

- E