Vadem VG-469 detected ... but always empty

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

This may be a case of "newer" not being "better" -- I'm upgrading my
ancient WiFi gateway machine from a Pentium-S to an AMD-k6 machine,
and from Mandrake 9 (2.4.18-6mdk) to 10.2, and I see the Vadem lines
in the dmesg, but cardmgr cannot detect any cards in the slot.

Intel ISA PCIC probe:
  Vadem VG-469 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e2 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
    host opts [0]: none
    host opts [1]: none
    ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,11 status change on irq 11
cs: pcmcia_socket0: time out after reset.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x\480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x\480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: excluding 0xaf8-0xaff
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: excluding 0xaf8-0xaff

... and no further messages.

this is with pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-3mdk; the AMD-k6 machine was previously
used as a Linux RH-6 machine, so it's unlikely to have incompatible
BIOS settings, and this wireless pc-card is tested and works just
fine.  

Any calls to cardctl insert produce a message

    cs: pcmcia_socket0: time out after reset.

and inset on socket 1 correctly responds that the socket does not
exist.

Is there something else I should check?  There's a note in one of the
web references about the Vadem ISA cards being 5v only; could this be
a symptom of the AMD-K6 being a 3v motherboard?  Is there some way to
query this short of pulling the box apart?

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