Thanks for the advices and for the help. I will see before if I can get a faster Debian and if I will try one other Puppy version I will post the results or ask other help if needed.... Greetings

I chose Wary bcs more adaptable for this old notebook; infact there is also Wheezy on it but it goes very slow even if I used XFCE. I will see what to do!
Many thanks for the help and regards.

Here attached, lsmod.txt with module 3c574 loaded. Here the size is different.

Unfortunately, the file is present in /lib/firmware/cis and its filesize is 137 B. The strange is that with Debian (Wheezy and Squeeze) it works without problems. Waiting for the next help...
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Just because I saw in the dmesg.txt, I have to add that I connected an USB/Ethernet converter and it worked, but just to try another possibility. I can't use this converter as fixed, so I need to solve the incompatibility with the PCMCIA card. Thanks again

Attached the file requested from you.
Thanks again!

Hello, I tried lsmod and 3c574_cs is present. ifconfig -a. Lo. Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436. Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0. dropped:0 overruns:0. frame:0 TX packets:0. errors:0. dropped:0. overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0. txqueuelen:0 ...

I gave the commands as suggested: # pccardctl status Socket 0: 5.0V 16-bit PC Card Subdevice 0 (function 0) [unbound] #pccardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEN556BI". "A", "001" manfid: 0x0101, 0x0556 function: 6 (network) # How can I ...

I have installed Wary 5.5 on an old notebook Acer TM212TX (P3 800Mhz, Ram 512 Mhz). Before I tried Debian Wheezy XFCE by upgrading from Squeeze. Debian is a little slow in operating and so I installed Puppy Wary hoping to get faster. It likes fast operating, but I have a problem that the OS doesn't ...