CardBus cards not detected, PCMCIA cards are

Jonathan Jara-Almonte jonjara at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 17:21:50 EDT 2006


On Friday 09 June 2006 14:56, you wrote:
> Jonathan Jara-Almonte wrote:
> > Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 2100US (PCMCIA bridge is O2Micro
> > OZ601/6912/711EO) and also 3 diferent cards: 1 PCMCIA 56k/fax card, one
> > D-Link 10/100Mbps ethernet adaptop, and 1 Linksys WPC54G ver. 3 wireless
> > adaptop. If I insert the 56k/fax card it is detected and a card entry
> > appears in lspcmcia and information appears when I run pccardctl
> > info/ident. pccardctl status reports it as a 5V 16bit PCMCIA card. On the
> > other hand when I put in either of the other cards, no entry for them
> > appears and the only info I can find listed about them is that pccardctl
> > status sees a 3.3V 32bit CardBus card. How should I go about getting
> > these cards working (I'm most concerned with the wireless card the others
> > I don't really care about).
>
> Cardbus devices belong to the PCI bus. To see then, you need to use lspci
> with its various switches - -n will show the id codes and -vvv will show
> everything else.
>
> Larry

Well, that was what I tried initially here's the output of lspci without a 
card in:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] 
(rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link 
Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin 
IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus 
Controller
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 
330M/340M/350M

and with a card in:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] 
(rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link 
Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin 
IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus 
Controller
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 
330M/340M/350M


as you can see there are no differences, and even if I use a -vvv flag no 
differences appear between the two. So what should I try next?




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