Laptops :: Pcmcia not working

There are no other PCMCIA cards, doh!

I d/led Knoppix and it works fine with the card
I guess i'm just going to have to start removing packages from knoppix to make it smaller.

Hmm..

There are a wealth of DSL users successfully using this card.

Have you searched the forums for "dell" ?
There has been some threads recently about Dell releasing
new bios updates to remedy certain problems ,
some pertaining to liveCD use...

When you are in knoppix, and you run "lsmod" or
"cat /proc/pci" , what do you see different in the lists
from when you run the same commands in DSL ?

73
ke4nt

Yay! I found the problem!

after checking /etc/init.d/pcmcia i found that it was symlinked to itself... kinda funny. Is it supposed to be like this? anyway ...

So i ran (as root):

modprobe orinoco_cs

the card turned on! Then

ifconfig eth0 up

Viola. Wireless worked.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

original here.