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Hi. I installed SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 on a Toshiba Satellite A100 and I'm having troubles letting the OS recognize a PCMCIA USR Gigabit Ethernet card. I tried several ...
  1. 07-17-2007 #1
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    Problems with PCMCIA slot

    Hi.

    I installed SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 on a Toshiba Satellite A100 and I'm having troubles letting the OS recognize a PCMCIA USR Gigabit Ethernet card.

    I tried several PCMCIA Gigabit Ethernet cards from different vendors and afterwards I discovered that the problem could be related to the PCMCIA driver of the Linux distribution.

    Could someone, please, address me solving this issue?

    > uname -a
    Linux hostname 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp #1 SMP Mon Jul 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    Thank you in advance

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    what is the brand of the card? Have you tried anything other than an NIC in the pcmcia slot?
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    Thank you for your reply.

    The card is a US Robotics 7903A, but I tried two other cards: one common fast ethernet and another Gigabit Ethernet. All the above were PCMCIA cards.

    After struggling for a while, I searched Google for some piece of information and I found that other people was having troubles with PCMCIA for kernel version greater than 2.6.13-rc1.

    The first time I plugged in the card I noticed that the power led was on, but in after tries this won't happen.

    After plug/unplug a PCMCIA card I executed the command

    > dmesg | tail -3

    and obtained

    pccard: CardBus inserted into slot 0
    pccard: card ejected from slot 0
    PCMCIA: socket defef7828: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

    It seems the kernel is having trouble with the PCMCIA socket for some unknown reason.

    It's very urgent for me to solve this matter, so please, any suggestion is welcome.

    Thank you

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    have you tried using ndiswrapper?
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    No, I haven't because although I'm a Unix expert, I've never faced problems with hw or system configuration under any Linux OS.

    I'm having a look at ndiswrapper documentation and it seems is suitable for wireless cards and some other kinds: my cards are all wired, because I need a wired connection.

    Thank you

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    At least I solved the problem. Reading some posts in forums related to Linux kernel, I discovered this is a known issue: I've followed one of the given advice and the PCMCIA socket begin working.

    The trick is to add a parameter to the kernel loader: pci=assign-busses . Doing that I solved my problem.

    Thank you for you replies

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