How Do I Connect to Ethernet?

Unfortunately, no. The Ethernet port is not PCMCIA. Its on the laptop itself. Are there any PCMCIA ethernet cards that WILL work?

I thought it is PCMCIA and that’s why it doesn’t works.
Can you give us an “lspci -nn” output?

… After typing “lspci -nn” via the Terminal, the following message appears, “bash: lspci: command not found”.

Under Haiku the correct command is “listdev”.

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Here is the output of listdev from my Thinkpad T21

Thinkpad T21 “listdev” Output Photo

Your device should be handled by the “3com” driver, based on FreeBSD’s “xl” driver (which is still using FreeBSD 9 sources, but this shouldn’t be a problem).

Does anything show at all in ls /dev/net ?

After typing ln /dev/net into the Terminal, the directory turns up empty.

… Any insight on what I can do next to get my Ethernet working? Shall I log a report? Where?

Yes, create a ticket over https://dev.haiku-os.org and attach your syslog there. See https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/ReportingBugs

How do I find this syslog?

See provided link on how to find it.

The syslog can be found at:
/boot/system/var/log/syslog

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Here is my syslog via pastebin … Is this useful?

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Since this is not a bug tracker, you need to create a ticket for that issue and attach syslog there.

KERN: [3com] (xl) bus_alloc_resource(3, [20], 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x1,0x2)
KERN: [3com] (xl) using memory mapped I/O
KERN: [3com] (xl) bus_alloc_resource(3, [24], 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x1,0x2)
KERN: [3com] (xl) bus_alloc_resource(1, [0], 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x1,0x6)
KERN: [3com] 3com: /dev/net/3com/0
KERN: [3com] (xl) reset didn't complete
KERN: [3com] (xl) eeprom failed to come ready
KERN: [3com] (xl) failed to read station address
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Yes, of course. I let that detail slip. Thanks.

If there is a problem with Haiku and your ethernet card, you might be able to try a USB ethernet adapter.

This particular laptops usb port is 1.0 … to my knowledge there is no usb 1.0 ethernet.

Newer USB devices will often work on slower buses; of course, at the slower speeds.

I don’t have a usb 2+ device that will work on that port, despite having several USB 2, 3 devices. I do have some USB 1.0 sticks that DO work though.

USB ethernet adapters are not supported by Haiku’s FreeBSD compat layer.