PCMCIA NIC - 3Com Megahertz 3CCFE574BT problem

Hello
Does anyone set this or similar 3Com network card successfully?
The list of supported PCMCIA cards contains this model.
But on the other hand I still experience some issues.
I figured out that in new kernels I supposed to replace (disable) the old
cardmgr with new pcmciautils. My Debian 4.0. kernel is 2.6.18-6.
lspcmcia and pccardctl is listing this device, ifconfig can manage this
device (eth1), but I can't still ping anything except loopback.
Someone said that I supposed to use /etc/network/interfaces (if-up,if-down)
rather than ifconfig.
I found information about specific pcmcia configuration in interfaces:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/
I request for assistance.
Regards
       Michael K. Kardela

Hello
Does anyone set this or similar 3Com network card successfully?
The list of supported PCMCIA cards contains this model.
But on the other hand I still experience some issues.
I figured out that in new kernels I supposed to replace (disable) the old
cardmgr with new pcmciautils. My Debian 4.0. kernel is 2.6.18-6.
lspcmcia and pccardctl is listing this device, ifconfig can manage this
device (eth1), but I can't still ping anything except loopback.
Someone said that I supposed to use /etc/network/interfaces (if-up,if-down)
rather than ifconfig.
I found information about specific pcmcia configuration in interfaces:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/
I request for assistance.
Regards
Michael K. Kardela