Hi,
on my Compaq EVO N800w notebook PCMCIA only detects a card after PCMCIA is restarted and the card is reinserted. When I bootup the notebook my PCMCIA wireless network card (I tried different ones) is not appearing. After doing a /etc/init.d/pcimcia restart and reinsering the card it is initialized and everything works as it should. I am using Debian unstable, maybe something got confused?
I wonder if someone else has observed the same or similar problem, or if someone can give me some hints what I can do to find out what my problem is. Under Windows everything works fine.
This is after the correct initializtion. Before "cardctl info 0" does not show the cards data, but "cardctl status 0" displays it correctly.
Here some debug data:
1. Before restart of pcmcia and reinsert of the card:
haver@goethe:~$ cardctl status 0
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]
haver@goethe:~$ cardctl info 0
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
2. No change even if card is reinserted.
3. Restart of pcmcia.
goethe:/home/haver# cardctl status 0
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]
goethe:/home/haver# cardctl info 0
PRODID_1="D-Link"
PRODID_2="DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP"
PRODID_3="ISL37101P-10"
PRODID_4="A3"
MANFID=000b,7110
FUNCID=6
The kernel is 2.6.4. Distribution is Debian unstable as mentioned above.
Any help is appreciated,
Frank
Looks like I am not the only one observing strange pcmcia behaviour:
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=PCMCIA+Debian
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=144786
Hi,
I found that I can make the card working without unplugging it. A script like the following makes it work:
#!/bin/bash
#
# wlan.sh
#
echo "Card detection circumvention starting ..."
/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
sleep 1
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
sleep 1
echo "Simulate card ejection ..."
/sbin/cardctl eject
sleep 1
echo "Simulate card insertion ..."
/sbin/cardctl insert
sleep 5
echo "Your card should be visible now!"
But this is still strange. Is there something wrong in the order I load the pcmcia support like driver, daemon, ...? Or is there something like a race condition which causes that the plugin event of my card is lost and the daemon therefore does not look for a driver? Very strange. Please help.
Frank
