problems installing PC Card 3COM FE575C

In comp.os.linux.portable Mark Chang <digitalpro@cox.net> wrote:

> OK - I gotten further. I compiled 3c59x.o and pci-scan.o.

Err, Fedora already provides a 3c59x driver. You obtained this driver
from Donald Becker's site?

> Insmod pci-scan and 3c59x
> ifconfig -a now shows eth0 at IRQ11 base 0x4000
> and the 10/100 link led is on.
> So far so good,
> but ....
> during service network restart
> when it tried to bring up eth0:
> it errors with
> "Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported"
>
> So the 3c59x.o driver must not have been compiled correctly??

You compiled it fine. But, you should not have compiled it at all.
This driver does not have all the functionality of the kernel 3c59x
driver, and it is choking the Fedora network configuration scripts.

-- Dave

In comp.os.linux.portable Mark Chang <digitalpro@cox.net> wrote:

> Well, that didn't work - so I added the "pci=assign-busses" to my
> linux boot disk and did the installation again.
> This time, RH setup saw my NIC.
> But after installation everything, the PCI bus is down again?

I don't know what this means. A PCI bus cannot be "down" or "up".

You should say exactly what happens when you insert the card. That
means showing system log messages.

-- Dave