Public bug reported:
The Asus A2H Laptop (marked A2500H on underside) that I deliberately
purchased from Sub300.com because of their dedication to Linspire, is
still running on Linspire 5.0.347 because I discovered the hard way that
Linspire 5.1.427 can't find its PCMCIA controller. I just received
Freespire 1.0.3 from LinuxCD.org and proved in Live mode that it can't
find my PCMCIA controller either.
Note that I use this laptop for my most important personal purposes, and
am thus reluctant to even partition its hard disk to install even stable
versions of Freespire or other distributions. Note that I have no other
hardware available, and even worse my very rural location restricts me
to a dial-up connection to the net.
Note that I use this laptop for my most important personal purposes, and
am thus reluctant to even partition its hard disk to install even stable
versions of Freespire or other distributions. I use a PCMCIA hardware
modem on this laptop because the installed Linspire compliant Winmodem
was zapped by lightning. Note that I have no other hardware available,
and even worse my very rural location restricts me to a dial-up
connection to the net.
Note Linspire 5.0.347 is satisfactory for most of my purposes, but my
problems with Linspire 5.1.427, Freespire 1.0.3 and Kubuntu 6.10 and the
fact that Sub300.com no longer sells this model of laptop suggests that
the problem will persist in Linspire 6.0 (which now follows the Ubuntu
Feisty Fawn and subsequent Freespire 2.0).
Taking inspiration from the news of Linspire/Freespire's shift to the
Ubuntu base, the following tests have been conducted in Live Mode using
CD-ROM obtained from LinuxCD.org.
Kubuntu 6.10 Live doesn't seem to find my PCMCIA controller in its
KinfoCenter, but it is possible I wasn't looking in the right place.
Debian Live KDE 'Casper' KinfoCenter says very clearly no PCMCIA
controller detected. Note there was an error in initiallizing the sound
driver.
Knoppix 5.0.1 found the PCMCIA controller and the modem without
difficulty.
Damn Small Linux 3.2 Live found the PCMCIA and modem without difficulty.
Fedora Core 6 Live-spin CD KDE couldn't find PCMCIA controller.
Note that a Linspire Diagnostic Report has been generated from Linspire
5.0.347 and can be transmitted elsewhere upon request. As a Linspire
'insider' the problem has been reported to Linspire support but they
appear to have lost my reports or sone such nonsense. :-(
Submitting a diagnostic report from within Kubuntu is not feasable since
I can't connect to the internet from this location without using the
internet.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Can't find PCMCIA controller in KinfoCenter
https://launchpad.net/bugs/87442
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