Toshiba Satellite 4300 and pcmcia

["Glenn Davy" <gdavy@tpg.com.au>]

Hi 
I've installed debian sid with 2.6.10-1-686  on my 'new' Toshiba 4300 & the
whole thing just rocks - well almost the whole thing.

I've got a Xircom network pcmica card, which works fine, and a belkin
F5D6020 wireless pcmcia card which doesn't.

There's oodles of googalable information on this belkin out there and it
__seems__ that I need to load the Orinoco modules if it's a version 1, and
the atmel_cs drivers if it's a version 2. No worries because this all seems
to be present in the pcmcia config files. But I'd like to verify that what
is there matches my system.

What I (initially anyhow) need help with is understanding PCMCIA and what I
can expect from the cardctl utility. It seems that cardctl ident is supposed
to provide information that I'm not getting.

Here's what happens with the belkin card:
I insert the card.

#ifconfig shows me nothing (only lo and irda0 that were there prior to
insertion)

#lspci Shows me my card:
"0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin Wireless PCMCIA Card - F5D6020
(rev 20)"

#cardctl ident Shows me, well, nothing:
Socket 0:
	No product info available
Socket 1: 
	No product info available

BUT, #cardctl status shows I have 'something' there:
Socket 0:
	3.3V CardBus Card
	Function 0: [ready]
Socket 1:
	no card


lsmod shows no change - I presume because it couldn't seed the card details
to bind to the module?

cardctl info shows all empty strings in its output:
PRODID_1=""
...
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255 
Etc etc


I wondered if it was a faulty belkin, but if I repeat the process with the
(fully functioning) Xircom, I get the same output from cardctl (i.e. nothing
tells me anything about the Xircom),but ifconfig, lspci and lsmod all show
appropriately different outputs.

Any suggestions?
Thanks for your indulgence
Glenn