I have a Dell Latitud D600 Duaol Boot with W2K and Mandrake. I installed MDK9.1 Pro Suite version to 10.0 Offical. On both instances the PCMCIA slot is not recognized, the modem does not work neither. How can I make the PCMCIA slot to be found by HardDrake and use my D Link Air-Plus DWL-G630 wireless NIC? Right now I have to use M$ if I want to use wireless. I tried to search on this and I could not find a real answer...

Please help on this one.


PS. I tried the Linuxant website, download some of their drivers and messed the Laptop, I was able to recover it.... That was a close call...!

Hi,

I also have one of these laptops. It should work pretty well once it is set up, but unfortunately if Harddrake does not recognise your kit you will have to do things manually with the command line.

First off, are you sure the PCMCIA slot is not found? Type 'cardctl status', and if that fails then try:

modprobe pcmcia_core
modprobe i82092
modprobe yenta_socket
modprobe ds

I think these are the right modules - not sure about the MDK kernel version.

Now try 'cardctl ident' again - any joy?

TIM

This is what I got...

[root]# modprobe pcmcia_core
[root]# modprobe i82092
[root]# modprobe yenta_socket
[root]# modprobe ds
[root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available

I did something wrong?

Sorry, my mistake. 'cardctl ident' does not actually work until you run cardmgr, so type:

cardmgr # (machine should bleep)
cardctl ident

If that works it is time to configure your NIC, and I'm afraid I can't really help you with that, but there is lots of info here on LQ so good luck!

TIM

This is what I got...

[root]# modprobe pcmcia_core
[root]# modprobe i82092
[root]# modprobe yenta_socket
[root]# modprobe ds
[root]# cardmgr #
cardmgr[5098]: watching 2 sockets
[root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "O2Micro", "SmartCardBus Reader", "V1.0"
manfid: 0xffff, 0x0001


Ok that is a start... thanks... all I need is the driver for my D Link Air Plus DWL-G630 and I am on my way...!

How can I keep it permanent? If I reboot I have to do that all over again...