Andrewski Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 I started up my laptop today for the first time in a while and the PCMCIA network card wouldn't load. I quickly (despite the slowness of the computer :)) realised that it was not the network configuration, but that the card wasn't even loaded.... Blast! First of all, I did see this thread and tried the solution listed therein. (I did have an empty modprobe.preload, so that was a helpful tip.) After such, I have the following: $ service pcmcia restart Shutting down PCMCIA services: done. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[1378]: no sockets found! done. $ cardctl ident open_sock(): No such device There are no lights on the card. I've also tried rebooting a number of times. Anyone have any ideas why this wouldn't be working anymore? (Thanks for the help, LZ! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 If it worked before and you haven't changed anything it probably is a hardware problem. Leave your laptop on for a couple of hours, remove the card, plug it in, in short experiment a bit, and it that should be enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted October 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 I've been messing with it a bit for the last 48 hours. I think maybe a reinstall is next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 I've been messing with it a bit for the last 48 hours. I think maybe a reinstall is next? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> why not try a LIVE CD like knoppix or pclinuxos and see if it works... if not then its likely a hardware fault... if it does then you can check other options like reinstall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Sorry I don't know much but it might have to do something with that yenta socket or what ever it's called, hopefully LZ will be aroundhere and he can tell you more about it and how to fix it. I had the same problem when I was using MDK my wireless card would work and sometimes not! -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 I just reinstalled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pwdbylinux Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 (edited) for the record, (and anyone else who stumbles across this post) here is a thread that tells you why it's happening, and how to fix it: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=15455 Edited October 16, 2004 by pwdbylinux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 for the record, (and anyone else who stumbles across this post) here is a thread that tells you why it's happening, and how to fix it: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=15455 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did you catch that I had already seen that thread and tried what it said? Not to say that it's not helpful, but it didn't solve my problem.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pwdbylinux Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) Nope, missed that part. Have you tried Gowator's idea of using a live cd to verify it's not hardware? During the re-install, was the card properly detected? Edited October 22, 2004 by pwdbylinux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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