You know, you make a good point about the BIOS installs and windows, I never thought of that. After about six months of dual boot I decided to get rid of windows because I never used it. Maybe on the next Fedora install I'll put a copy back on. Although every time I have checked the BIOS updates I didn't really see anything that was going to make much of a difference. I have viewed that list before as well, although not lately. It has been a decent resource although I only have a 32 bit machine. Having only been using Fedora and Linux in general for about 10 months I need all the help I can get. Thanks David On Sun, 2005-09-01 at 16:16 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:44:07 -0700, David Donnelly <brownsfan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have been unable to get any pcmcia card working under fc3. I am > > googled to death about this so I turn to the list... > > > > I am attempting to install a Linksys WPC11 ver.3 wireless card. The > > laptop is a Compaq r3000. It has a built in wireless which uses a > > Broadcom chipset. I have that working with Ndiswrapper. I am intending > > to use the Linksys card as a wireless scanner. I have lights on the card > > and have installed the wlan-ng driver which is supposed to work with > > this card. Although I have configured the card, I get a "wlan1 has > > different mac address than expected" on boot. This error actually has > > nothing to do with the mac address as I found a similar bug while > > googling. What is actually happening is the card is not found. I also > > attempted to plugin an older Xircom ethernet pcmcia I had here and it > > doesn't work either. > > > > Any suggestions as to what to try. I am considering the fact that the > > pcmcia slot may not work on the computer, but I don't have XP on this > > computer anymore to try in it windows. I hadn't tried another pcmcia > > card prior to this either so I don't know if it ever worked. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > David > > > > Hi David, > There are some issues with Cardbus PCMCIA cards on this laptop with > Linux. Or there at least were. Check out this mailing list for > running Linux on Compaq R3000 laptops: > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > The list is mostly for those with 64-bit laptops, but there are many > using the 32-bit version. Is this an R3000Z (AMD) or R3000T (Intel)? > I beleive some people have gotten around this issue using the command: > setpci -s 0:a.0 SUBORDINATE_BUS=0A > I have not tried using any PCMCIA cards, so I don't know if the issue > is still present in the 2.6.9 kernel. There was talk of some patch > for this getting in. Anyway, you might try the command and see if it > helps. > > Jonathan > > PS It's a bad idea to completely remove Windows. There have been > some helpful BIOS updates posted by HP, and Windows is required to > install them (they are installed with Windows executables). >
