"cardbus cards are not supported"

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/26/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm getting the following error:
> "cardbus cards are not supported"
>
> This is when I insert a brand new DLink DWL-G650 into an older laptop (IBM
> Thinkpad 600E).  Everything I'm finding on Google would indicate that this
> means that CARDBUS support has not been baked into the kernel... but that
> would indicate that the config file located at /boot/config-2.6.22.14-386 is
> lying.  It shows "CONFIG_CARDBUS=y" and that is the correct version of the
> running kernel, as supplied by Ubuntu.
>
> Validating this with the linux source shows only one instance of this error
> message:
>
>         $ grep -r 'cardbus cards are not supported' /usr/src/linux/*
>         /usr/src/linux/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c:                     cs_err(skt, "cardbus
> cards are not supported.\n");
>
> Any ideas?

I'd guess that your older laptop doesn't support cardbus cards.  I'm
using that very same card in one of my laptops (requires madwifi)
without any issues with Fedora 7.

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