PCMCIA issue

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Mon Aug 15 02:06:45 UTC 2005


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Ian K wrote:
 >>>Hi there.
>>>Im new to Ubuntu. I have a laptop, with a PCMCIA card (3com 589) and I
>>>_really_ need
>>>internet. How can I go about getting this card to work? I plug it into
>>>the laptop, and
>>>it beeps. How do I get this going?
>>>Thanks!
>>>Ian
> 
>>Guys, I really need this working. Any Ideas?
>>Thanks again!
>>Ian
> You don't mention what kind of laptop you have.  Try going to this
> page (http://tinyurl.com/7ru8a) and see if there is a heading for
> your brand of laptop.  There may be some help there.
> 
> I'm a little surprised that you are having problems with a pcmcia
> card.  Do you have the pcmcia-cs package installed?

>Thank you very much for the reply.
>This laptop is a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37.
>Its slot is a Ricoh RL5C475.
>I installed everything off of the disc, but this computer
>has not had internet access for me to install anything else
>onto it. Thanks!

> The page doesn't mention the Panasonic Toughbook I have,
> although the one mentioned has PCMCIA working.
> Ian

Your time or time zone is incorrect.  Your reply shows as being
received hours before my e-mail was sent:
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:37:06 +0000

You didn't say if the pcmcia-cs package is installed.  You can check
in Synaptic or do 'sudo apt-file search pcmcia-cs' in a terminal.

Ed
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