3Com PCI 3c556B mini-PCI on IBM Thinkpad X21

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This should work with the 3c59x module but kicks out the following errors in /var/log/messages

3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
000:00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c556B Latop Hurricane at 0x2000. Vers LK1.1.19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
***WARNING*** No MII transceivers found!
command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xfff
command 0x2801 did not complete! Status=0xfff
command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xfff
command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xfff
command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xfff
command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xfff

I installed gentoo with a knoppix disk, which runs this just fine. I had similar problems with SuSE, which I tried on this laptop, but gave up because there's not much of a support community, versus Gentoo.

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This is a bus device and therefore is treated like a PCMCIA card despite the fact that it is not. You must emerge pcmcia support in the kernel and emerge this drivers a module on the TP X21 and probably others. Works fine.