Panasonic Toughbook PCMCIA Problems

Ian Kabeary omega21 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 1 00:48:55 UTC 2005


Hi there,
I have a Panasonic Laptop (CF-37). It used to be on Gentoo,
but then I discovered Ubuntu for my friend. (Its his laptop).
He would like to have his PCMCIA slot working, because it
is the only way to get Internet on this computer, which is a
necessity. The install went fine, and he is happy with Ubuntu.
Here is the problem: When he inserts a 3com LAN card, it
beeps, and beeps again on removal. When he inserts the WAN
card, which he needs working the most, there are no sounds.
A quick look in the dmesg, shows a nobody cared error, as
well as a 'cs: unable to apply power.' We did not check the
output of a dmesg with the 3com card. I might add he has a
slightly 'evil' card bridge, the Ricoh RL5C475. I found this
HOW-TO, but it uses a 2.4.x kernel, which Ubuntu does not
seem to provide, nor do we want. Here is the URL in case it
is useful:

http://raw-io.com/pci_802.11b.html

But again, we get nobody cared, and a cs: unable to apply power.

Any ideas?
Thanks!
Ian

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