Re: Laptop PCMCIA problem

also if this is a cardbus capable slot.. throw a cardbus card in and see
if a new PCI device shows up.

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:00 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> 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.
>

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Received on Wed Jan 18 21:17:37 2006