PCMCIA card causes reboot

Forum: Laptops
Topic: PCMCIA card causes reboot
started by: meldra

Posted by meldra on Nov. 25 2005,10:07

Greetings,

I am running DSL 1.4 on an old < Acernote 355 >, 586/100mhz, 16mb ram, 541mb hdd with a 40mb swap partition.. any larger and X didnt have space to run (I intend to upgrade as soon as I get a larger hdd). I recently aquired an old pcmcia card, the type with no lump, to try get my little beast on the net. However whenever I boot with this PCMCIA card the system reboots when cardmgr runs and if i plug in after the system is booted up, it also reboots.

What solutions are there? I read that some older cards aren't supported in the 2.4 kernal, and I dont particuarly want to have to recompile the kernel unless I have a hand to hold whilst doing so, as I am still quite a n00b.

Posted by roberts on Nov. 25 2005,16:14

I would suggest to try DSL 2.0 as it has a ramdisk/swapdisk improvement. Also try Joe's window manager as it uses much less resources. Both of these should make a big difference.

Posted by meldra on Nov. 26 2005,02:40

Quote (roberts @ Nov. 25 2005,11:14)

I would suggest to try DSL 2.0 as it has a ramdisk/swapdisk improvement. Also try Joe's window manager as it uses much less resources. Both of these should make a big difference.

You have completely missed the point of my question. The question was not regarding ram/swap, rather how to get my PCMCIA card to work.

Posted by meldra on Dec. 15 2005,13:26

*blink*

Does nobody who has been on here in the last 20 days have any clue?

Posted by doobit on Dec. 15 2005,13:34

Are you trolling? Robert's answer gave you a clue as to why your card may not be working.

Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 15 2005,22:42

P.S. Is it a true PCMCIA not a CARDBUS nic?

If it has gold stripe where pins plugin its cardbus and the voltages may not be supported by that older hardware

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by meldra on Dec. 16 2005,09:15

Trolling? Heck no. I just like to understand why to do things before I do them. Trolls generally are not after information/understanding.

As such, I do not understand why ram/swap disk would be causing said rebooting when the cardmgr program initiates the pcmcia card. I especially do not understand how a different window manager would assist, considering the window manager seemingly has nothing to do with cardmgr causing reboot before even the initial login prompt appears.

If you can qualify the arguements then I would certainly consider downloading the 2.0 .iso. Until then, I would rather preserve my bandwidth.

Now if someone could please provide some less cryptic information, preferably without any accusations towards myself, I would be very grateful.

Posted by meldra on Dec. 16 2005,09:22

AwPhuch,

No, there is no gold stripe.

The card itself is almost identical structurally to the panasonic pcmcia card for the external CD drive, that worked fine under win95, except that the plug where it connects to the cable to the device is different. I can provide photos if need be.

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 17 2005,05:01

If your pcmcia card works fine on the exact same computer but when it is running Win95 then it is not a hardware problem.

According to this guy, it does not support Cardbus but for you it is not a problem:

< http://www.saunalahti.fi/~l33tmmx/extensa.html >

Also, it might help to disable apm support by booting with:

dsl noapm acpi=off

but it is just a shot in the dark.