[CentOS] CentOS 4 and PCMCIA Cards

Wed Apr 27 02:02:37 UTC 2005
ryan <ryanag at zoominternet.net>

Does Fedora Core 4 (test 2) work with them?

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:19 -0700, Joe Harb wrote:
> 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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