Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

kcin · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Oakland CA

I have a laptop with a 3Com 3CXFE575CT PCMCIA card. There is no such driver in the list in the Ethernet Configurator. I did find another post on this forum that said the 3Com 3C59x driver worked on his 3c575 (albeit a different sub-model) , but it doesn't work on mine.

Can anyone tell me "How does one supply a driver that is not already included?"

Regards,

Kcin

gnomen · Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 65 Location: NORWAY

I have the same exact card and the exact same driver problem on my puppybox. Fortunatly it is for the secondary ethernet interface so I do have a connection

The solution it seems is to get a driver yourself. As far as I know you can take it from or compile it in another fatter distro with a compatible kernel and copy it to puppy. Or if the rumors or correct you can download usr_devx.sfs and compile it in puppy as well

I am cracking on with it about now myself. I'll let you know how it goes. But I'm no expett so based on experience expect about a month before I'm done...

Guest · Guest

Your exact model of Cardbus (not PCMCIA) adaptor is listed here -
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-hardware/pcmcia.html
as being supported by the 3c59x driver.

I don't know what other driver you could consider compiling.