FW: Question about PCMCIA device configuration

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

I've installed 3.7 on the hard disk of a laptop. It works great!

I do have one small isue. The laptop has a builtin hardwired Intel NIC,
This gets detected corectly and the e100 module gets loaded for it. 

However, I also have a Linksys 802.11b card. Sometimes this card gets 
detected and loaded as eth0, before teh hardwired NIC, sometimes not.

I think that the key to the problem is this:

root@brown2:/home/stan# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Instant Wireless ", " Network PC CARD", "Version 01.02", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)

I beleieve thta the fnction 6 confuses the pcmcia autodetection scheme. 
Is there soem way I can force this card to be detected as a wlan device?

I've also got an AirLink+ wireless card, which shows this:

root@brown2:/home/stan# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  no product info available
  manfid: 0x0007, 0x0082

And it corectly gets loaded as a wlan device.
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