I have multiple IBM R40 Thinkpads that will not recognize any card plugged into the pcmcia slot while running Centos 4.  I first found the problem with Fedora 3.  When Fedora 3 was initially installed the slot worked fine but as soon as the system was updated to a certain kernel level (don't remember which) the slot stopped working.  The card I am working with is a Trans Digital Universal parallel port card.  I have also plugged in a Belkin wireless card, as a test, to compare a different card.  I still have a couple of Fedora 3 installs without updates that work but not Centos.

upon boot dmesg shows
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.

the command cardmgr outputs
cardmgr[4791]: open_sock(socket 0) failed: Bad file descriptor

cardctl insert results with this in the messages file
PCMCIA: socket f7a08044: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

cardctl info
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

cardctl status
Socket 0:
  no card





Alex Ford wrote: 
Yes, for reference, I have a somewhat old Linksys wireless PCMCIA
802.11b WPC11 ver. 3 card that works perfectly on my Toshiba Satellite
laptop with CentOS 3.x and 4. It uses the orinoco_cs driver and was
detected correctly on the OS installation. I set it up using the system-
config-network script. 

Are you're having a problem with a particular card or are you asking for
a recommended brand? Perhaps you can provide a little more details about
what you're looking for. 



-Alex Ford


On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:53 -0700, Joe Harb wrote:
  
Has anyone been successful with PCMCIA cards being seen by CentOS4?
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