Cardbus firewire + USB card causes trouble when inserted

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Wed Aug 24 06:37:35 EDT 2005


Hi,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:28:03AM -0400, Venkat Lakshminarayanan wrote:
> I am having trouble getting Linux to recognize the following card:
> Syba SD-PCB-COM
> Chipset: M5271
> Product Info: http://www.syba.com/product/43/05/01/
> It offers 2 USB2 ports and 2 firewire ports.
> 
> When I insert it and run 'cardctl ident 0' [when this card is plugged
> into slot 0] I am given the message "no product info available."  The
> system has no trouble, however, recognizing my wireless PCMCIA card
> [linksys wpc11].

This is a CardBus card (32-bit) instead of a PCMCIA card (16-bit). Does it
show up in "lspci"? If not, please send a full dmesg to this list.

Hope this helps,
	Dominik



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