Hi Derek,
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: "Jan Braun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I got a Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb cardbus card and try to
> > run it an an ACER Travelmate 212 TX.
> >
> > The kernel is capcable of pcmcia-cards. It is even capable of this
> > card, but I didn't manage to configure this card automatically :-( I
> > tried instead a different PCMCIA ethernet card with success.
> >
> > When inserting the card into the cardbus slot, the cardmgr does not
> > allways beep, but if it does, the following could be read in
> > /var/log/messages:
>
> What do you mean by "does not always beep"? If you insert the card, remove it
> and insert it a second time, does it beep on every second insert? This is
No, it doesn't.
I was not able to determine a rule, on how or when the kernel /
cardmgr detects the card.
Interessting enough: the best method to ensure, that the card is
detected, is to insert it into the laptop and that issue
# cardctl insert
by hand. Sometimes you will hear a (very) short sound from the
loudspeaker. But it is more like the noise you year, when you first
connect the speaker to the amplifier.
If you then say
# cardctl eject
you hear two high beeps.
> consistent with my PCMCIA/Cardbus interfaces under Linux. It's not the
> particular card, because it happens with both my network cards. My older card
> also has a modem which worked under 2.2 and earlier kernels but doesn't work
> on
> 2.4 or 2.5, but I haven't needed it in a long time as the laptop's built-in
> modem is much faster. However, in my case I just get a module error on
> serial_cs (or something like that - I haven't used it for ages) and it goes
> ahead and initializes the ethernet.
>
On my card, the ethernet is function 0 and serial / modem is function
1. Hence, the ethernet should be configured anyways ...
> Obviously fixing the 'does not always beep' condition wouldn't affect the
> underlying problem (which I can't help with) but if you're like me, once I
> found
Yes, seems so.
> that the situation was consistent and that the card would be recognized on
> every
> second insertion, I realized I could live with it.
>
I'm really not happy with that. But, this is the laptop of my son and
he doesn't need ethernet or modem. He uses that laptop only to be
able to write something down while in school. (He is disabled and
this computer should be a help for him.) That computer has also
problems with powermanagement and right now, its on its way to the
manufacturer, because of problems with the battery / power supply.
Bye
Jan
