Laptops :: Pcmcia not working

When running DSL on my Dell Inspiron 9100, the pcmcia doesn't seem to be working. The power light wireless card does not turn on. I tried to restart the pcmcia slot (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) but that doesn't seem to be the way to restart pcmcia on DSL. How do I get the pcmcia to restart(or start)?

What are you putting in the pcmcia slot?

My Wireless card wont power on until the drivers are loaded

Is that a cardbus card or a pcmcia
If it has a gold strip where the card plugs into the pins it cardbus, it its metal all the way down its pcmcia

some laptops wont support cardbus
http://support.dell.com/support....&osl=EN

Brian
AwPhuch

The laptop supports cardbus, the card works on other versions of knoppix. Also cardbus appears to be starting fine.

On boot i get there is the line:
PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr.

There are no errors until:
AutoConfiguring Devices... modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-2 modprobe: modporbe: Can't locate module block-major-2

apm also craps but i'm not so concerned with that now

thanks for any help you can offer.

Oh yeah, the card is a linksys instant wireless network pc card.

Quote (AwPhuch @ Oct. 27 2004,13:57)

My Wireless card wont power on until the drivers are loaded

really? hmm... then maybe DSL just doesn't have drivers for my card.

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