I can't seem to get my ORiNOCO card to even power up when I put it in my PCMCIA slot, Is there something I have to load to get the Carbbus to fire up? (Texas Instruments PCI-1420)

I can see PCMCIA start up, and state that it's watching 2 slots but nothing happens when I insert the card.

Any Ideas?
Thanks PPL!

are you using the kernel PCMCIA support, or did you "emerge pcmcia-cs" ? I use the kernel support
When the card is plugged in, does it show up in lspci?

Sorry about the dual-post, I noticed after the fact but I could not figure out how to move the topic.

Here is the output from 'lspci'
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 41)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
0000:02:02.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) WinModem 56k (rev 01)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)
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as for the Emerge or Kernel question, I did do the kernel first, as a Modual then when that did not work I tried the emerge.

With the kernel support I can see pcmcia during boot, and it starts to watch my two ports, but does not find anything.

thanks for answering,

sorry, could you post lspci -v

This is with the card connected.
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lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] #09 [0105]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 96
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-ebffffff

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 41) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: c0200000-cfffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at 1860 [size=16]
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647-4MG) or A30/A30p (2652/2653)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1c00
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647-4MG)
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0

0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647-4MG)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647-4MG)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 51000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:02.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) WinModem 56k (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647-4MG)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at c0201000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at 6440 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2

0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at 6400 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

Well I know it can see my card...
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cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available

after re-reading previous posts, you said that the in-kernel pcmcia support was a module. I'll assume that it is loaded.
The hardware does seem to be detected. What happens then when you try to do an ifconfig eth1 up. Is there an error?

Also, do you know what module the wireless card uses, or are you planning to use one of the wrapper technologies with a windows driver?

I have the orinoco_cs loaded,
ifconfig eth1 up, returns no such interface....

I am going to re-install the whole shabang tonight, I am not sure if I messed something up or not, but the card fires up in the live cd enviroment just fine.
I am just going to copy that kernel over.

I'll let you know,

thanks for the help.

My advice is not to use the package pcmcia-cs, use the kernel support. Also, copying the kernel from the CD will only work if all the modules are copied as well. I usually install the genkernel utility on new systems until I've had a chance to learn which modules I should include in the kernel, so that option might help you.

Thats where I went amiss with the first installation, I did a manual build and thought I had got everything I needed,
genkernel sounds like a plan,
Thanks again.

Well after my re-install, I can get the light on the card to come on now, but if I run wifi-radar I get
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eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported
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I am lost

And if I do a
iwconfig eth1 ap 00:05:5D:FA:EF:2D
Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.