How to make 3Com 10/100 BaseT 3c575 PCMCIA Card work on Inspiron ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Below are two quotes from e-mail by Vipool Rathod , dated Tue, 31 Mar 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I recently got an Inspiron with the 3c575 pcmcia card. Here are the steps I did to get it to work. How to get the 3Com 10/100 BaseT PCMCIA Cards working in Linux: 1. Read the HOWTO's. All the information is there. See http://sunsite.unc.edu/Linux, http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/pcmcia.html, and http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ 2. Upgrade kernel to 2.0.33. Configure and install kernel. 3. Install pcmcia-cs version 3 package. It is patched for 3c59x PCMCIA supprt Personally, I installed Xi first, reloaded the Xfree86 stuff (make sure you do this from the CD, I did it from my dos partition and it truncates the names.. which screws up rpm a little), upgraded the kernel(some things can not be modularized.. mouse, etc..), then installed the pcmcia-cs 3 pkg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ everything works fine.. (although, even with network in rc3.d, I still have to start the network manually.. ie /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Update from David Haggerty (haggerty yfu.de) on Mon, 26 Apr 1999: I'm not very experienced with Linux but I think this problem is b/c he is starting networks before pcmcia. I changed the following and it now works fine: mv /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S45pcmcia /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S05pcmcia Since network was S10, I just had pcmcia start up before it. I think this is OK to do :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Footnote: Remember that lilo.conf uses /boot/vmlinuz- instead of /boot/vmlinuz (which is a link). Otherwise you would be booting the old kernel and would get a message: cs: socket 0 timed out during reset