Ok, just recently did a clean install of mandrake 9.2, everything was working fine under 9.1 even the wireless just thought i should check out what 9.2 has to offer. Well after the install i have everything working fine but my wireless card.
Ok cardctl ident gives me:
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available

On manny 9.1 i had to use a hack hermes.conf and place it under my /etc/pcmcia dir, then do a /etc/init.d/rc.d/pcmcia restart and then configure the card w/ drakconnect. Unfortunatly i can not load that(hermes.conf) cuz i need the manfid from cardctl ident. On the boot up there is an error during starting pcmcia stating that it cant locate module memory_cs, however the lights on the card come on and it gives me the two tones one nice one then a bonk which i know it means the card didnt load properly.

I know wireless cards have been beat to death in these forums and i have searched high and low on here and google but to no avail im stuck. if i have to i would go back to 9.1 to get my wireless back. SO if there is anybody that can lead the blind it would be appreciated.

This doesn't look like a probably with the card per say, but a problem with pcmcia not getting loaded, if it were loaded right, then there would be information on the socket... that's really bizarre. What's the information from "dmesg" right around pcmcia load?

Cheers,

Finegan

Ok thanks for helping but here is the problem i searched thru dmesg to try to find where it was messing up loading the pcmcia but i could not find anything so i copied the entire dmesg and included it below. Also to help out with this i watch the startup process and copied anything that releated to the pcmcia socket. Here is what happens in the startup screen:

Starting pcmcia:
cardmgr[873]: socket 0: Anonymous memory
Starting portmapper:
cardmgr[873] + modprobe: cant load module memory_cs
Start system logger:
Start kernel logger:
Start partmon logger:
Start NFS lockd:
Start NFS statd: get dev info on socket 0: Resource temp unavailable

here is dmesg (sorry that i had to include the whole thing)


nux version 2.4.22-10mdk (nplanel@no.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)) #1 Thu Sep 18 12:30:58 CEST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffea800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffea800 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feea0000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 65514
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61418 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fde50
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d30303 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde64
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d30303 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: MADT not present
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent
ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 863.795 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1723.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255300k/262056k available (1508k kernel code, 6368k reserved, -1961k data, 156k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 866MHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 863.7868 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 132.8902 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1328902, slice: 664451
CPU0<T0:1328896,T1:664432,D:13,S:664451,C:1328902>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc06e, last bus=8
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/244c] at 00:1f.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
kinoded started
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xd0800000, size 1875k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:d690
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... silenjpeg size 107888 bytes, found (800x600, 107840 bytes, v3).
Got silent jpeg.
Got silent jpeg.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2M: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH2M: chipset revision 3
ICH2M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
hda: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MATSHITA CD-RW UJDA330, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c0180d20, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
Swsusp 1.0.3: kswsuspd starting
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 300k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 12:42:04 Sep 18 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbce0, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA330 Rev: 1.50
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev$ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0f.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.1
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[f6ffd800-f6ffdfff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[344fc0002f1cf001]
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:20:E0:6D:2B:63, IRQ 10.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 727095-002, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-10mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr4 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 4
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr5 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 5
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr6 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 6
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr0: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr1: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr2: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
sr3: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr3: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
sr4: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr4: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
sr5: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr5: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
sr6: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr6: mmc-3 profile capable, current pro 0h
sr0: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr0: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr1: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr1: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr2: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr2: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr3: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr3: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr4: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr4: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr5: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr5: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr6: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr6: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr0: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr0: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr1: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr1: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr2: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr2: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr3: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr3: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr4: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr4: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr5: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr5: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr6: mmc-3 pro 0h
sr6: mmc-3 pro 0h
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0f.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.2
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0f.2
Yenta IRQ list 0298, PCI irq10
Socket status: 30000010
Yenta IRQ list 0298, PCI irq10
Socket status: 30000006
cs: socket ce779000 timed out during reset. Try increasing setup_delay.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
maestro3: version 1.23 built at 12:41:41 Sep 18 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 02:03.0
maestro3: Configuring ESS Maestro3(i) found at IO 0xDC00 IRQ 5
maestro3: subvendor id: 0x00e61028
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 0 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 1 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 2 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 3 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 4 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 5 changed to on
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815, but could not find the secondary device. Assuming a non-integrated video card.
agpgart: Detected Intel i815 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000


thanks for helping finegan you rock!!

Was the right part of the dmesg, but its always nice to see the whole thing:

P3 866Mhz notebook, Intel i815M graphics chipset, Nividia card? 256Mb of RAM, which makes sense, its a real Nv card too, not one of those memory sharing dogs, Usb 1.1, firewire!, onboard Intel eepro network card, my guess... lookin a lot like a Viao from about 2-3 years ago, but that's because its such generic kit, the firewire wasn't common then, generic Intel board... yeah, that's my best guess, and the Matshita cd-rom screams to me Viao or Sharp, maybe offbrand like Asus.

IRQ 10 is shared 6 times, that's a little overkill, and it might be the bug, the line:

cs: socket ce779000 timed out during reset. Try increasing setup_delay.

Makes me a little paranoid.

First things first though, you've got one other bug that might clear this up too... for some jacked up reason your cdrom is appearing on every LUN under scsi emulation. There's no need to have it emulated to scsi unless you have a CD-RW, which I highly doubt this is as it tagged in as a CD in dmesg, so go into /etc/lilo.conf and edit out the line that should read:

append = "hdb=ide-scsi"

Then re-run Lilo with: /sbin/lilo

And then reboot, and check to see if all of that scsi chatter is gone, as far as the pcmcia problem goes, we know now its not the card, but the bridge, what's the bridge?

/sbin/lspci

My bet is generic as dirt Texas Instruments, this is going to make for an odd hunt.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well actually it is about 2 almost 3 yrs old but its a dell inspiron 8100 and it is does have a cd-rw so should i still edit that line in the lilo.conf?

As far as "lspci" it was saying the command couldnt be found but i think i found it as "lspcidrake" prolly cuz the flavor of linux im running The output from that is as follows:

agpgart : Intel Corporation|82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Con
troller Hub [BRIDGE_HOST]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82815/82815EM/EP AGP Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI]
i810_rng : Intel Corporation|82801 Hub Interface to PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI]
sonypi : Intel Corporation|82801BAM LPC Interface Bridge [BRIDGE_ISA]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset IDE U100 (-M) [STORAGE_IDE]
usb-uhci : Intel Corporation|82820 815e (Camino 2) Chipset USB (Hub A) [SERIAL_USB]
Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 Geforce2 Go [DISPLAY_VGA]
maestro3 : ESS Technology|ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]
unknown : Actiontec Electronics Inc.|PCI to PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI]
yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller [BRIDGE_CARDBUS]
yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller [BRIDGE_CARDBUS]
ohci1394 : Texas Instruments|PCI4451 OHCI-Lynx IEEE 1394 Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE]
eepro100 : Intel Corp.|EtherExpress PRO/100B (TX) (MiniPCI Ethernet+Modem) [NETWORK_ETHERNET]
LT:www.linmodems.org: Lucent Microelectronics|WinModem 56k [COMMUNICATION_OTHER]
unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub]

just to add a note to this i still havent got any farther, does anybody know why it tryin to load anonyomous_cs? Finegan, as far as the scsi is concerned i checked under mount points under mandrake control panel and i have multiple "set mount point cdrom" for some reason. Although on the desktop it shows only one icon and of course i only have one cd-rw on this laptop w/ a 3.5 floppy which works fine. I checked out linksys support site it had a d/l of the wlan driver to install. Im going to give that a shot, hopefully all goes well.

BTW finegan the reason the cd-rw showed up on every lun was cuz of a bug in the mandrake. i had to add the line hdXlun=0" for /dev/hdX to my lilo conf, now there isnt 7 cd-rom in my desktop nor on bootup? but still cant get my wireless card to work , i know its a good card cuz it works fine in my friends laptop running windows xp.

I know, its still this then:

cs: socket ce779000 timed out during reset. Try increasing setup_delay.

Which means pcmcia itself is actually the culprit... Try a pcmcia restart after boot, just open a term and type:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Then take a peek at "dmesg" and see if its still got the bug in it. If not, then most likely it then loaded support for your card, if so... I'm going to figure out what this setup_delay thing is all about.

Cheers,

Finegan