Networking :: PCMCIA CARD NO POWER

I have a old Toshiba 3015CT. DSL works great on it.

I have a couple of PCMCIA network cards. They have worked in the past with DSL on this system.

My problem is: Both network card won't power on. Not sure why. The cards are good though. Windows sees them, but not DSL. The reason DSL won't see them is because their power lights are not on.

Is there something I can do to get them to power up?

When I type ifconfig... I only get the lo... nothing else.

Again, these cards worked fine with DSL 2.2b and 2.3 and 2.4.

The cards are Linksys WPC11 v4(Used NDISwrapper) and a Netgear MA401... I know my slots are working because when I boot to the DOS partition with my PCMCIA cd-rom I can access files off the drive.

If it is a version problem, please let me know. I can go back to 2.3 or 2.4 by just copying the knoppix file over to my DOS partition and use the boot floppy to bring the older version up and check to see if it works, but before I do that I need to know if it is a version problem. I like all the versions of DSL. I just need this system going for my kids.

Thanks

What version of DSL are you using? 3.x uses the same kernel as 2.2-2.4, whereas 4.x uses a newer one.

What are your steps and are there any errors/warnings (check dmesg as well perhaps)?

Well, right now I try 4.4.4, and I also tried 3.3. No power to either card I have tried.

There are no warnings or errors during bootup...it is like the cards aren't even in the slots. I have 2 slots on that laptop, I have tried both slot with both cards and nothing.

This is the first time I boot this laptop up in 6 months. I swear it used to work wonderful.

Like I said before, when I boot into DOS, DOS sees the PCMCIA CD-ROM... so I know the slots are working.

Another things that happens is: When I first power up the laptop, one of the cards (MA401) will flash it's light, then it goes off.... then nothing.

What is dmesg? Tell me how to look at it please.

thanks

After searching the forum, Roberts posted to someone to use the

dmesg | grep -l irq

This command Roberts posted is for irq conflicts... When I get home from work today, I will mess with the dmesg and see if I can see anything that is causing a problem.

BTW, DSL 4.4.4 is so slick. Seems Roberts is making DSL better and better every version.

Hey guys... here are me dmesg.... if you have any inputs, let me know... if you don't see anything, let me know..

I am really pulling my hair out with this...

Thanks again for all the help

<4>Linux version 2.4.26 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000006010000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000006010000 - 0000000006020000 (ACPI data)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000006020000 - 0000000006040000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fef80000 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 00000000fffe6e00 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe6e00 - 00000000fffe7000 (ACPI NVS)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>0MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>96MB LOWMEM available.
<4>On node 0 totalpages: 24592
<4>zone(0): 4096 pages.
<4>zone(1): 20496 pages.
<4>zone(2): 0 pages.
<6>DMI not present.
<6>ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB ) @ 0x000fa3d0
<6>ACPI: RSDT (v001 TOSHIB 750 0x19980710 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x06010000
<6>ACPI: FADT (v001 TOSHIB 750 0x19980710 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x06010054
<6>ACPI: DSDT (v001 TOSHIB 3000CT 0x19990511 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
<4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal
<4>No local APIC present or hardware disabled
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>Detected 266.619 MHz processor.
<4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 530.84 BogoMIPS
<6>Memory: 94276k/98368k available (1371k kernel code, 3704k reserved, 561k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
<6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<6>Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
<6>Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
<4>Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<5>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
<7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>Checking for popad bug... OK.
<4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
<4>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
<4>mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
<7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
<4>CPU0: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
<4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 160.14 usecs.
<5>SMP motherboard not detected.
<5>Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
<4>Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
<4>All processors have done init_idle
<6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
<6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd88f, last bus=21
<6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<4>ACPI: IRQ13 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.PS2M._STA] (Node c11f8660), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.FDD_._STA] (Node c11f8a80), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.HDD1._STA] (Node c11f8c20), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.COM_._STA] (Node c11f8e20), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.ATH1._STA] (Node c11f8fa0), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.ECP_._STA] (Node c11f7260), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.LPT_._STA] (Node c11f7340), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.PCM4._STA] (Node c11f73c0), AE_NOT_EXIST
<4> ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.SND1._STA] (Node c11f7600), AE_NOT_EXIST
<6>ACPI: Interpreter enabled
<6>ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
<6>ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4bios S4 S5)
<6>ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<6>ACPI: Power Resource [PWH1] (on)
<6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
<6>PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
<6>PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
<6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
<3>schedule_task(): keventd has not started
<6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
<6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
<4>Initializing RT netlink socket
<4>Starting kswapd
<5>VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
<6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xc701b000, size 1875k
<6>vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=1
<6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:9030
<6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw
<6>vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
<6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
<4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is an 8272A
<4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<4>hda: TOSHIBA MK4310MAT, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
<4>hda: host protected area => 1
<6>hda: 8452080 sectors (4327 MB), CHS=526/255/63
<6>Partition check:
<6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
<4>ide: late registration of driver.
<6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<6>Initializing Cryptographic API
<6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
<6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
<6>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
<6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
<6>Adding Swap: 240964k swap-space (priority -1)

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