Hello all..
Trying to get my WLAN card working..

I think it works fine, except for one thing. The driver complains about not being able to find the WLAN card, until I eject it, and insert it again.

Then it prompts:
PCI: Enabling device 03:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)

and then the driver loads fine..

So.. in short. I think that the device doesn't get initialized until I explicitly insert it. Anything I should modify/configure in order to have it 'detected' during startup?

Its pcmcia doinking up and not loading the cardbus module correctly... it might be cardmgr being slow to start so it doesn't recognize an insertion event. Hmm, its not a real pcmcia card, its a cardbus card, and the kernel dealing with these is a rather new thing, not to mention that userspace binaries are still pcmcia-cs, so development is slow and split in half.

I guess the best thing I can think to do is cheat. Call a reload of pcmcia with the card in there. If this is redhat, Suse, mandrake:

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

If that loads the module correctly, just put that line in:

/etc/rc.d/rc.local or if its SuSe, boot.local, or really, post back with your distro.

Cheers,

Finegan

Aye, thanks for your reply. I tried that already, and, unfortunatly, that doesn't work. :/

The other ideas I can think of are all unfortunately voodoo, hand compile a newer version of pcmcia-cs against your existing kernel... the bug is probably with cardmgr not probing the socket right and only catching it on stab events, possibly yenta_socket, the in-kernel driver, but I doubt it, that thing is usually quite good at what it does, is there anything odd in dmesg on startup?

Cheers,

Finegan