Re: pcmcia auto-detection problem
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Jeff Bradberry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently working on configuring my wireless card for my laptop and
> have tripped across a difficulty with my pcmcia configuration. This is a
> HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop and a D-Link DWL-G630 wireless card. The
> wireless card has an Atheros chipset supported by the madwifi project, and
> I have already gotten it working; this is not the issue. The problem is
> that unless I have the card in during boot, I must manually do 'cardctl
> insert' to get it to be detected properly. Otherwise, it fails to do
> anything.
>
> murasaki:/home/jrb# cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> no product info available
> murasaki:/home/jrb# cardctl insert
> murasaki:/home/jrb# cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00"
> manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
> function: 6 (network)
>
> As I said, I have managed to get the card working; this problem is
> annoying but not critical. I would appreciate any advice that people can
> provide to get this fixed. Thanks.
>
> ii linux-source-2.6.12 2.6.12-10 Linux
> kernel source for version 2.6.12 with
> ii pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-5.2 PCMCI
> A Card Services for Linux
> ii madwifi-source 0.svn20051110-1 sourc
> e for the Multiband Atheros Driver for
>
I apologize for not providing this info:
ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-25 Linux Hotplug Scripts
udev is not installed.
It turns out that upgrading to kernel 2.6.15 (with no other changes) fixed
this problem.
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