PCMCIA card problems...
 

I am trying to get a wireless PCMCIA wireless card working on my laptop. Problem is, I can't seem to get the card working at all. In dmesg, one of the lines says:

cs: pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power.

I'm not exactly sure what this means. My guess would either be that drivers Fedora loaded for the chipset didn't work or that the PCMCIA slots are broken in some way. Anyone have any idea about what might be going wrong?

If you google your error message you'll find quite a few similar reports. Unfortunately I don't think there a single cause or easy fix. One thing to try (bit of a long shot tho') is to load the 'yenta_socket' module with option ' override_bios=1'. You can do this by adding a line

options yenta_socket override_bios=1

in /etc/modules.conf. If you want more specific advice you should post more details of the card (should be able to find it in output of 'lspci' command) and what kernel modules are loaded (output of 'lsmod' command).

It may also be worth compiling the latest kernel and seeing if fixes the problem.