FC3 on Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 Laptop?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 00:15, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 23:39, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Has anyone successfully installed FC3 on a Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 
> >>laptop? I'm currently still running RH9 on mine. Several months ago I 
> >>tried installing FC2. It would install but the pcmcia slot no longer 
> >>functioned. When I would plug my wireless card in (or any pcard) it 
> >>would not even beep, let alone work. I had to re-insall RH9. I would 
> >>love to try FC3 but don't want to have to re-install RH9 if FC3 doesn't 
> >>work with the pcmcia slot. How can I check this out in advance?
> >>
> >>Rick B.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I just installed FC3 on a Toshiba Tecra M2.   Having a problem at the
> >moment getting the built in ipw2200bg wireless to work.  I have also
> >found that if the wireless on/off switch is thrown FC3 locks up solid. 
> >(is that worth a bug report?)
> >
> >It seems to see the wireless interface, able to run an iwlist scan and
> >see the available APs but have been unable to connect to an AP.  
> >
> >But to your problem.  What does lspci give you?  How about cardctrl
> >status and cardctl ident?
> >
> >And did you try:
> >
> >service pcmcia restart
> >
> >  
> >  
> >
> It was a while ago that I tried installing FC2. The wireless drivers 
> were never loaded and the pcmcia slot did not seem to function. I'm sure 
> I didn't try to run the service pcmcia restart command.
> 
> Trying lspci now under RH9 gives me a line with "CardBus bridge: Toshiba 
> America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 
> 33)". Doing /sbin/cardctl ident gives "Socket 0: product info: "D", 
> "Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card", "version 01.02","" manfid: 0x0156, 
> 0x0002 function: 6 (network).
> 
> Rick B.

Well I found with FC2 that pcmcia network cards (wired or wireless) did
not work in a logical fashion.  Since network services started before
pcmcia the network cards would not startup at boot time if you marked
them to start at boot time.  They would start at boot time if you marked
them NOT to start at boot.  Not logical at all.  But it has been working
on my Dell latitude for well over a year now.  

I can't tell from what you sent what chip set that particular card has. 
I have a DWL-G650 that use with the prism54 drivers.  I believe your
card has a different chip set.

If you try FC3 on it again try to restart pcmcia services and look
through the log files and post relevant portions here.

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