PCMCIA not working.

[David Donnelly]

You know, you make a good point about the BIOS installs and windows, I
never thought of that. After about six months of dual boot I decided to
get rid of windows because I never used it. Maybe on the next Fedora
install I'll put a copy back on. Although every time I have checked the
BIOS updates I didn't really see anything that was going to make much of
a difference.

I have viewed that list before as well, although not lately. It has been
a decent resource although I only have a 32 bit machine. Having only
been using Fedora and Linux in general for about 10 months I need all
the help I can get.

Thanks
David


On Sun, 2005-09-01 at 16:16 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:44:07 -0700, David Donnelly <brownsfan at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > I have been unable to get any pcmcia card working under fc3. I am
> > googled to death about this so I turn to the list...
> > 
> > I am attempting to install a Linksys WPC11 ver.3 wireless card. The
> > laptop is a Compaq r3000. It has a built in wireless which uses a
> > Broadcom chipset. I have that working with Ndiswrapper. I am intending
> > to use the Linksys card as a wireless scanner. I have lights on the card
> > and have installed the wlan-ng driver which is supposed to work with
> > this card. Although I have configured the card, I get a "wlan1 has
> > different mac address than expected" on boot. This error actually has
> > nothing to do with the mac address as I found a similar bug while
> > googling. What is actually happening is the card is not found. I also
> > attempted to plugin an older Xircom ethernet pcmcia I had here and it
> > doesn't work either.
> > 
> > Any suggestions as to what to try. I am considering the fact that the
> > pcmcia slot may not work on the computer, but I don't have XP on this
> > computer anymore to try in it windows. I hadn't tried another pcmcia
> > card prior to this either so I don't know if it ever worked.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> 
> Hi David,
> There are some issues with Cardbus PCMCIA cards on this laptop with
> Linux.  Or there at least were.  Check out this mailing list for
> running Linux on Compaq R3000 laptops:
> http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
> The list is mostly for those with 64-bit laptops, but there are many
> using the 32-bit version.  Is this an R3000Z (AMD) or R3000T (Intel)?
> I beleive some people have gotten around this issue using the command:
> setpci -s 0:a.0 SUBORDINATE_BUS=0A
> I have not tried using any PCMCIA cards, so I don't know if the issue
> is still present in the 2.6.9 kernel.  There was talk of some patch
> for this getting in.  Anyway, you might try the command and see if it
> helps.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> PS  It's a bad idea to completely remove Windows.  There have been
> some helpful BIOS updates posted by HP, and Windows is required to
> install them (they are installed with Windows executables).
>