ALL,
I'm having some serious problems getting this card (linksys) to work. Ive been using Ndiswrapper-1.0 and the wpc54g linksys card. The only driver I can get to load is lmbcmnds....I tryed lstinds with no luck, says invalid driver. With lmbcmnds it loads but only says driver present..never states hardware present.
The power indicator never comes on. HOw do I verify PCMCIA is working and how do I resolve this....any ideas......


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I think the problem is with PCMCIA.

When I perform cardctl ident I get no product info available.
When I perform cardctl config it shows socket 0 being configured w/IRQ 11 Exclusive w/socket 1 not being configured.

I looked at /var/lib/pcmcia/stab and it says both sockets are empty????

I do a cardmgr -v and get open socket failed: Bad file descriptor

thats about how far I can get without knowing what to do next.

Do you have PCMCIA support turned on (in the kernel)?
A good read: Linux PCMCIA How TO

If PCMCIA support exists then try: /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
To see a list of messages produced: cat /var/log/messages

Not sure how to verify its turned on within the kernel - but when I
perform that command it states that the device is busy, so I'm thinking
its already on. I don't have the sound working yet - but when I pull
out my card the PC gets "busy" processing and same when I push it
back in. If I check, I forget the cmd right now, to see if the card is there
it shows something is inserted but cardctl ident doesnt recognize it.

I've read the How to a hundred times hoping I overlooked something but
I can figure what it is - just that I'm not getting a power indication to the
card.

Try this:
See if linux has cardmgr running:
> cardctl ident

My output is:
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Intel", "AnyPoint(TM) Wireless II PC Card", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0089, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)

If you don't get any useful output then you should try to see if linux can even load PCMCIA.
Remove all cards from the PCMCIA slot(s).
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart
Dump the system log to console again. Note any messages with a recent time stamp.
> cat /var/log/messages

Here is what mine looks like (yours will vary somewhat):
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1028:00b0]
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.0, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x64
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04d8, PCI irq 11
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Socket status: 30000006
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.1 (0000 -> 0002)
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.1 [1028:00b0]
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.1, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x64
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04d8, PCI irq 11
Feb 7 23:25:10 localhost kernel: Socket status: 30000010

Take a few minutes and read up on the man files in linux:
>man pcmcia
>man cardmgr
>man cardctl
>man stab

Let me know what happens.