PCMCIA in SuSE Pro 9.2

[Alma J Wetzker]

Harry Giles wrote:
> 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.
> 

I get no change in the '/var/log/messages' file and 'cardctl ident' reports no 
cards in either socket, yet I know the card works under windows 2000 pro.

I guess my problem is that the system is not playing with PCMCIA.  It says it 
is, but it is lying.  Any suggestions?  (Sticking with Windows is not a 
suggestion.)

     --Alma