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NRK wrote:
>
> I have installed BL3.3 on an old Ascentia lap-top with a 
> 75 Mhz CPU, 32 MB of RAM and a small 524 MB hard drive. 
> I have installed a network card 3c589c. 

I assume that's a PCMCIA card.  

> Cardmgr has identified the card correctly. However, the 
> drivers or module for this device have not loaded successfully. 

That's because it isn't in BL3.  The most common PCMCIA 
network card is pcnet, and BL3 does that.  For the less 
common cards (3c589, ibmtr, smc91c92, xirc2ps, etc.), 
you need to get the right module from Slackware 7.1 and 
add it to BL3.

You will find the 3c589 module in /modules/2.2.16/pcmcia.
Put it in /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia (in BL3).

You then need to tell cardmgr what to do when it finds
such a card in the PCMCIA slot.  Add the following to
the beginning of /etc/pcmcia/config
---------------------------------
device "3c589_cs"
class "network" module "3c589_cs"
---------------------------------
                                                     
Then scroll down to the "Network Card" definition 
and change:  bind "pcnet_cs"  to  bind "3c589_cs"

Please report back whether this works or not.

Cheers,
Steven

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