Re: Laptop PCMCIA problem

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:37, Ronald Yeager wrote:
> Thanks,
> The pins are all fine. Looked really close at them.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:29 pm
> Subject: Re: Laptop PCMCIA problem
> To: Ronald Yeager <rony@gci.net>
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>
> > Ronald Yeager wrote:
> > >> Distro?
> > >> kernel version?
> > >
> > > window 2000
> > >
> > >> what does dmesg/bootup say?
> > >> what runlevel? is it there for startup?
> > >> in kernel modules? or package modules?
> > >> pcmcia service started?
> > >> what version of pcmcia-cs?
> > >> has it worked b4?
> > >
> > > yes, suddenly quit
> >
> > Hi Ron,
> >
> > What happened between the last time it worked and the first time
> > it did
> > not? Was anything new installed or did someone change something in
> > the
> > BIOS? Does the card(s) seat correctly in the bay and have you
> > looked
> > inside the bay to see if a pin is bent over or something foreign
> > got
> > stuffed in there? Is this dell under warranty, they are having a
> > huge MB
> > problem that they are scrambling to fix.
> >
> > Jon

My $.02 worth. Can you tell if the pcmcia card slot driver is loading.
The card slot has a separate driver from the cards that are used, two
separate pieces of hardware. My laptop has uses the yenta-xxx socket
driver then a few others for the card itself. If the card slot is not
able to be activated it could be a mb isssue.

-- 
Greg Madden
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