Panasonic Toughbook PCMCIA Problems

Ian K omega21 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 01:24:39 UTC 2005


Ian Kabeary wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
Hi there,
Im really sorry, but I need to bump this message.
Any ideas?
THanks again!
Ian
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