Alma J Wetzker wrote:

Harry Giles wrote:

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Bill Campbell wrote:

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

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I just got a Thinkpad T23 for doing school stuff. I have SuSE Pro 9.2 loaded on it right now. Everything works except the PCMCIA (cardbus?) stuff. I am trying to get a Belkin 54g (F5D7010D) card working. I can't find a log that reports the card in the computer. Yast can't find it. What do I need to do to get PCMCIA working, or, which log should I be looking in to see if the thing is even detected? I need a concrete starting place or command. I have been trying ndiswrapper, with no luck.

You should see something in the /var/log/messages file when you insert or remove the card. I'm not familiar with the Belkin 54G card, but I haven't had much luck with any of the 802.11g cards with SuSE 9.2 or earlier (I have a couple here waiting for them to catch up :-). I'm using a USB 802.11b card on my ThinkPad 600 running SuSE 9.2 Professional. This required some fiddling, and installing software on SuSE 9.0, but worked out of the box on 9.2.

These cards don't happen to be based on a Texas Instruments chip set, are they? If you, you have to download the software drivers seperately via Yast update.

Hope it helps.

I get no change in the '/var/log/messages' file and 'cardctl ident' reports no cards in either socket, yet I know the card works under windows 2000 pro.

I guess my problem is that the system is not playing with PCMCIA. It says it is, but it is lying. Any suggestions? (Sticking with Windows is not a suggestion.)

Usbview sees my pcmia card. For some reason Linux appears to treat PCMIA like a USB item. Usbview is on the Suse disks, or you can get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbview/ . At least then you will know if your system sees the card. Harry G