PCMCIA in SuSE Pro 9.2

[Harry Giles]

Bill Campbell wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>  
>>I just got a Thinkpad T23 for doing school stuff.  I have SuSE Pro 9.2 
>>loaded on it right now.  Everything works except the PCMCIA (cardbus?) 
>>stuff.  I am trying to get a Belkin 54g (F5D7010D) card working.  I can't 
>>find a log that reports the card in the computer.  Yast can't find it.  
>>What do I need to do to get PCMCIA working, or, which log should I be 
>>looking in to see if the thing is even detected?  I need a concrete 
>>starting place or command.  I have been trying ndiswrapper, with no luck.
>>    
>
>You should see something in the /var/log/messages file when you
>insert or remove the card.  I'm not familiar with the Belkin 54G
>card, but I haven't had much luck with any of the 802.11g cards
>with SuSE 9.2 or earlier (I have a couple here waiting for them
>to catch up :-).  I'm using a USB 802.11b card on my ThinkPad 600
>running SuSE 9.2 Professional.  This required some fiddling, and
>installing software on SuSE 9.0, but worked out of the box on 9.2.
>  
These cards don't happen to be based on a Texas Instruments chip set, 
are they?  If you, you have to download the software drivers seperately 
via Yast update.

Hope it helps.

Harry G