PCMCIA problem

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Fernando J. Vargas wrote:

>Sorry if this has been asked already 1000 times... but here it goes.
>
>I have just installed Fedora Core 1 as a clean install in a Vaio Laptop
>and i cant get my wireless pcmcia card to work.
>It simply does not recognize any type of pcmcia card, cardmgr doesnt
>even do the beep thing its supposed to do.
>  
>
My experience is with a Compaq Presario 2100, so this may not help you, 
but I found that the new 2.6 kernels for Fedora Core 2 Test 1 work with 
my pcmcia hardware correctly, whereas the 2.4 kernels did not.  And 
turning on acpi via "acpi=on" as a boot line argument (added in 
/boot/grub/grub.conf) was absolutely essential on this hardware. You 
might give both of those a try.

Another thing to check is what messages are written to the system log 
when you try to start the pcmcia service.  Open a terminal  then
su -        and enter root password
service pcmcia stop
tail -f /var/log/messages&    will monitor the syslog as a background 
task (which writes through to your terminal still).
service pcmcia start
Google any messages that appear to be errors or warnings, and if you 
find nothing, reply including the messages.

To stop the tail enter "fg" to bring it from a background task to 
foreground, and "ctrl-c" to stop it.

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