[vortex] Dell Latitude C500

[Andrew Morton]

Gavin Tabor wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I have recently bought a Dell Latitude 500 laptop, with the modem/3Com
> 10/100MBit miniPCI ethernet card in it. I am trying to set it up under
> Linux, using SuSE 7.1 distribution, and the one part I can't get working
> is the ethernet link to our departmental LAN (100MBit connection).
> 
> After some rummaging, I came to the conclusion that the device is a
> 3c556 card (device id 6055).

6055 is a 3c556.  The 2.2.18 driver should recognise it quite
happily.  I'd suggest the following, as root:

ifdown eth0
rmmod 3c59x
dmesg -n 8
modprobe 3c59x debug=7

then send the resulting logfile output to this list.

Thanks.