[FC2] Best option for PCMCIA Wireless card

[Chris Kloiber]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 18:21, Thomas Molina wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > > The no socket found message seems independent of whether the card is 
> > > inserted or not during boot.  I was not able to configure the card during 
> > > install because (big assumption here) of the observed no socket found 
> > > noted above.  In order to configure the card and the resulting eth0 I had 
> > > to resort to the manual removal of the modules, followed by restarting 
> > > pcmcia and inserting the card.  I could then use the GUI to add a new 
> > > wireless device as normal.
> > 
> > Granted I have an x86_64 laptop, but try some or all of the kernel boot
> > options: noapic pci=noacpi,usepirqmask or noacpi and see if that allows
> > you to boot with the wireless nic. On an 'open' wireless lan (no
> > security) my pcmcia orinco_cs will find the network with no
> > configuration at all using these options. Using wireless security
> > obviously does require running system-config-network.
> 
> There is security, but it is unrelated to this problem.  In any case, it 
> doesn't even get that far -- the pcmcia system doesn't see any sockets to 
> talk to so it never sees the NIC to initialize it.  I tried booting with 
> your suggested options; they didn't help.  I still get the no sockets 
> found message.

Does your bios have any settings that would affect PCMCIA like "PCIC
Compatible", or perhaps you have the ability to manually assign IRQ's?
(unlikely in laptops) or even a PnP/no PnP toggle?

-- 
Chris Kloiber