Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-03 Thread Scott Storck
Ian K schrieb: When I pop in a standard 3com 589cs card, the computer beeps, and beeps again when I take it out. That looked promising. I then put in his WAN card, a new Linksys Wireless B Adapter. (WPC11 version 4, which uses a Realtek chipset.) I heard nothing when putting it in, but heard a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Rout
or maybe a knoppix disk which is pretty good at detecting hardware. On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:22:37 -0400 Michael Crute wrote: > Being lazy I would start with the dead simple route. Boot the ubuntu livecd > check out what driver it loads and if the card works, if all is peachy under > ubuntu reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Being lazy I would start with the dead simple route. Boot the ubuntu livecd check out what driver it loads and if the card works, if all is peachy under ubuntu reboot gentoo and modprobe the driver that ubuntu loaded. If all that fails then you need to dig deeper into your kernel config. I could ma

[gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Ian K
HI guys, I have resorted to putting Ubuntu on my friend's laptop. If you remember, it was an evil Panasonic Toughbook, with a Ricoh PCMCIA card slot(?) from hell. If you want a brief explanation, read starting from the 1. If you want to skip to the problem, goto 2. :) 1. Well, I tried everything,