[vortex] Dell Latitude C500

[Gavin Tabor]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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.

There was no output at all from either of these commands. However doing
a
plain dmesg and scanning through, at the end I found :

3c59x.c 15 Sept00 Donald Becker and others.....
eth0: 3Com 3c556 10/100 Mini PCI Adapter at 0xd400, 00:04:76:45:f2:d9
IRQ11
eth0: Card Bus functions mapped f3ffd800->c8096800 (PCMCIA committee
brain-damage)
Internal config register is 80600000, transcievers 0x40
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface
MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7809
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives

Does this mean anything?

Gavin

> 
> Thanks.

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Dr. Gavin Tabor
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Engineering
University of Exeter