PCMCIA card insertion results with system freeze

Hi everybody,

For the last 2 months I am trying to make a wireless card work. I am using Mandrake 10.1 Community with a 2.6.8.1-10mdk kernel. My wireless card is a D-Link DWL-650+ and for last my notebook is a Compaq Evo N160.

My problem is that whenever I insert the card in the PCMCIA slot the system freezes and whenever I take out the card from the slot the system goes on working normally like nothing has happened.

I did the following:
- I stopped the pcmcia service from Mandrake Control Center.
- I inserted the card into the slot.
- I started the pcmcia service from Mandrake Control Center.
- They system freezed.
- I tooke out the card from the slot.
- A box appeared with the following information in it:

Code:

Shutting down PCMCIA services: done. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[4854]: watching 1 socket cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xc00-0xcff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x800-0x8ff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x100-0x4ff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xc0000-0xfffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xa00-0xaff: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 1: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 2: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 3: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 4: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 8: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 9: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 10: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 11: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 12: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 13: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 14: Input/output error cardmgr[4854]: could not adjust resource: irq 15: Input/output error done.

I also tried this card with 3 different distros (Ubuntu, Mandrake, DSL) with 3 different notebooks. I always got the same results.

So does anybody have any idea about the problem? Any suggestions will help.

Thanks

Birgi

Not sure if this helps, but maybe it's the card. I have the exact same card, actually two of them. I use them both on ubuntu 5.10 just fine.
The only thing I do different is that I don't stop or start the pcmcia service. All I do is insert the card when I want to use it, and pull it out when I'm done. Works like a champ. It does take quite a while to connect and negotiate an IP address, but that's about the only down side.

gypsy98101,

Thanks for your reply. I also have two of them. Yesterday I realized that one is not working as you say. However the other one works very well in XP, but still causes freeze in Linux. So I gave up after 2.5 month and bought an usb wireless adapter :oops:.

Thanks

Birgi