help with D-Link DWL-650: a physical manifestation

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:10:45AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote:
> Thanks to the help of this list, I eventually got the
> card working on my portege laptop.  I initially just
> had the ignore_cis_vcc option in the wrong place. 
> Once I got that straightened out, the card worked
> fine.  That was with the pcmcia bridge set to PCIC
> mode.  I changed it to Cardbus mode in the BIOS and
> now it works without the "ignore..." option, however,
> I sometimes have to eject and insert the card to have
> it be detected by the pcmcia subsystem. Most times it
> works fine.  I suspect it is probably also running at
> 3.3 volts now that the controller is in cardbus mode.
> 
> The only problem now is my Toshiba libretto 50ct
> laptop.  It has no PCI bus, so no cardbus support,
> just 5 volt pcmcia.  The card seems to work with the
> "ignore..." option, but as soon as I insert the card I
> get the "Tx timeout" error referenced on this page:
> 
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html
> 
> I tried excluding the irg that the card was initially
> using, but that didn't seem to help.  Any suggestions?
> 
> BTW, both laptops have 2.4.9 using kernel pcmcia
> drivers.

Since you're using the kernel pcmcia, you might want to check whether
you're using the i82365 or the yenta_socket driver (see
/etc/default/pcmcia or /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, the PCIC variable).
I've found that the yenta_socket driver seems to work rather better,

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