Hello Matt, hello Andreas, hello Wigbert At first happy new year ! And the year of all the PCMCIA cards working with all SuSE 9.x AMD64 distribs :-) ! If the SuSE laptop team needs to perform tests by the way of the SuSE users, no problem. Hereafter the main characteristics which can be usefull for the team : - My laptop : Asus L5DF series, chipset nVidia nForce 150, cardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab) - My OS : SuSE 9.0 AMD64 with kernel 2.4.21-268, SuSE 9.1 AMD64 with kernel 2.6.8 of SuSE 9.2 AMD64 (and WinXP pro SP2 32 bits) - My PCMCIA cards : modem card Hayes Optima288 (v34), modem card Com One Platinium Card MC227 (v90), ethernet card NetGear FA411 (16 bits) Hereafter, the status after several tests and suggestions of Matt : These three cards work fine under WinXP on this laptop and under other 32 bits linux distribs. Only the FA411 works under SuSE 9.0 AMD64, no success with the modem cards. Don't hesitate to contact me for performing tests Pascal =================================================== From: "Matt T." <Matt@Boons.net> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:12:56 +0700 Message-Id: <200501052012.56905.Matt@Boons.net> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Acer Aspire 1523 WLMI und 64bit-Linux Suse-9.2 On Wednesday 05January 2005 00:19, Andreas Jaeger wrote: /> wlindenbauer@t-online.de (Wigbert Lindenbauer) writes: / /> > Hello Andreas, / /> > / /> > is it possible for you to test the PCMCIA-Slots ? / /> / /> No, I don't have any cards myself. But it should work... / /> / /> Andreas / Well, Andreas, unfortunately it does not! Some cards work, and others do not. I spent many days to get it to work with 9.1 on my HP notebook, as reported here earlier. I had been lucky that I tested with a card which works (a Axen / Sagem GPRS card). After that I tried other cards (Sierra Wireless GPRS card and a modem card) which all work fine under 9.1 and 9.2 on a 32 bit notebook). They do not work, as reported. And this is not a config.opts issue anymore, the memory range and the ports are adjusted to what is used on the 64 bit notebook. Taking Pascal's report, and my experience, there are 4 cards out of 6 *not* working. They apparently do not get a device assigned by serial_cs (such as /dev/ttyS1, or whatever else). May be cardmanager does not even get started when these cards are inserted. Andreas, I know you cannot test without the hardware. But obviously we need some help here to get this to work, and this seems to be for the benefit of SuSE also, as there will be more AMD64 notebooks coming. Isn't there anyone in SuSE owner of the 64 bit PCMCIA code? May be we can help by working together? Can you guide us to do some tests? Or would it be helpful to send you a non-working PCMCIA card? As of now I can only recommend to test if a PCMCIA card on an AMD64 notebooks works, *before* buying. 4 out of 6 cards not working is a bad number. And taking into consideration that the 9.1 PCMCIA code was not working without manually adjusting the memory and port configuration in config.opts and without updating the kernel to a kernel >= 2.6.7 it is obvious that this was never tested when 9.1 was released. SuSE 9.2 *is* the very best Linux distro for notebooks. Let's not add to that "but not for amd64 ones, using PCMCIA", please! A Happy New Year! Matt