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
Any test results allready available ??
Best regards Wigbert
I like to use a PCMCIA-card for WLAN. I have two cards for WLAN, Artem Comcard-11 and Netgear WG511T. Both are working with 32bit SUSE-9.2 in my 11Mbit/s-WLAN and WEB128. The Artem Comcard-11 uses an orinoco chipset and the Netgear WG511T uses an atheros chipset.
Does the PCMCIA-Slot work with the SUSE-9.2-64bit-LiveCD ?
How about Firewire and USB2 ? Any test results ?
The AcerAspire1523WLMi has a 100GB harddisk, 1GB RAM, 1 DVD burner, Nvidia-graphic-chip, 4 * USB2 , 1 mini-Firewire-Port and 2 PCMCIA-Slots. The AMD64-3200+ is NOT a mobile version. ( 1399,-�)
Best regards Wigbert
Hello again,
is somebody using an Acer Aspire 1523 WLMi with Suse-9.2 or another 64bit-Linux ?
I'm using an Aspire 1520.
Is there any problem with compatibility for 64bit ?
Depends on the WLAN card.
Does Linux support the PCMCIA-Slot ?
Should - but I haven't tested it.
Andreas
Andreas