Hello List, I've got an old Toshiba Tecra 720CDT (133Mhz w/96MB ram). I just bought a Netgear WG511 802.11g wireless card to put in it. The pcmcia card is (obviously) a 32bit card. Up to this point I've only used 16bit cards in the laptop.
The problem is the card is not being recognized at all by Linux. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8 (it had been running an old 2.2 kernel), and installed hotplug and discover (didn't think they would really do anything, but it made it easier to get the drivers installed for other things like the sound card). When I insert the card, neither of the leds on the card turn on, I don't get any of the usual beeps from the computer, etc. Cardctl reports both sockets as being empty. The pcmcia controller is an old generic i82365 chipset. So, my question. I'm guessing this is a compatability issue; the old laptop can use 16bit cards but not 32bit and that the card shouldn't be this dead even if it were somehow defective when I got it. Can someone with more pcmcia experience confirm this, or give me any tips to do more troubleshooting? TIA, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
