SuSE 10.0 and cardbus support

nitroid · 09-16-2006, 05:34 AM

I have A-Link PC100R-N PCMCIA ethernet card, which i'd like to use on my Thinkpad 600 running SuSE 10.0. I plug in the card and nothing really happens, and this is what dmesg tells me afterwards:

Code:

cs: pcmcia_socket0: cardbus cards are not supported.

This is fixed if I do a kernel update via YOU, but that also breaks some very vital Thinkpad-specific things like CPU fan control and such. So it seems that either I have a laptop that doesn't freeze every 5 minutes or a laptop with a somewhat decent network card (the old 3com I'm forced to use now is _not_ decent).

Tried getting drivers and general support from A-Link website, but the only driver they have there (listed under win 98/nt/2k/xp, Linux and osx) is an exe file. So no help there. Well, I guess this is what I get from being a cheapscate and buying a 20€ piece of technology.

Help appreciated.

carl0ski · 09-17-2006, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by nitroid

I have A-Link PC100R-N PCMCIA ethernet card, which i'd like to use on my Thinkpad 600 running SuSE 10.0. I plug in the card and nothing really happens, and this is what dmesg tells me afterwards:

Code:

cs: pcmcia_socket0: cardbus cards are not supported.

This is fixed if I do a kernel update via YOU, but that also breaks some very vital Thinkpad-specific things like CPU fan control and such. So it seems that either I have a laptop that doesn't freeze every 5 minutes or a laptop with a somewhat decent network card (the old 3com I'm forced to use now is _not_ decent).

Tried getting drivers and general support from A-Link website, but the only driver they have there (listed under win 98/nt/2k/xp, Linux and osx) is an exe file. So no help there. Well, I guess this is what I get from being a cheapscate and buying a 20€ piece of technology.

Help appreciated.

10.1 has much better laptop support
but
do this as root in a konsole A-Link may have made the card but it most certainly uses a real chipset like intel or 3com etc Go straight the the chipset for drivers.

lspci

look through for you ethernet card.