Pcmcia card locks my laptop up hard

...it's an atheros card, and I use madwifi to connect. Or I used to. Lappy locks up so tightly I have to power off. Any ideas?

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Does anyone know the best performing PCMCIA card for use on an Airport Extreme wireless network?
I have an IBM R40 laptop.

RHESKE, Welcome to the discussion area!
Does the WinXP laptop have wireless capability? If so, what have you tried and what were the results?

MY PCMCIA-FBUS/2 CARD LOCKS THE LAPTOP UP, WHEN I INSTALL THE CARD.

I HAVE A PCMCIA-FBUS/2 CARD THAT LOCKS UP THE LAPTOP WHEN IT IS INSTALLED. WE HAVE TRIED IT ON 3 DIFFERENT LAPTOPS. ALL OF THEM HAVE THE COMMUNICATION MANAGER SOFTWARE & HAVE BEEN USING FIELDBUS. THE 1 THING DIFFERENT I HAVE FOUND IS WE ARE USING THE SERIES 2 F-BUS CARDS. DO I NEED TO LOAD A DIFFERENT SOFTWARE FOR THIS TYPE OF CARD, OR UPRADE TO A DIFFERENT TYPE?
TERRY MCCLAIN

Hello Terry,
Would you please let us know what kind of Cardbus (PCMCIA) controller is adopted in the laptop? This is the key point.
According to our test, some particular Cardbus controllers are not compatible with our PCMCIA-FBUS series 2 interface card, e.g. Ricoh R5C475II. With these controllers, inserting the PCMCIA-FBUS S2 always hangs the whole OS; the OS becomes active again when we draw the PCMCIA-FBUS S2 out of the slot.
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PCMCIA Series 2 card locks my laptop up when I try to install it

I have two NI PCMCIA-FBUS/2 Series 2 cards that I purchased in June 2006. Unfortunately when I attempt to install it on either of my Sony Laptops one with XP Pro and the other with Windows 2000, it causes the machine to lock up/hang. I have Ni Configurator and Comms Manager ver 3.1.1 loaded onto both machines. Does anyone have a similar problem and maybe a solution. Note the laptops are different models and about 3-4 yrs old. One laptop has a Ricoh PCMCIA controller.
Thanks

This is the same hardware compatibility problem. Actually, PCMCIA-FBUS Series 2 cannot work with some particular laptops. The key point is what kind of Cardbus (PCMCIA) Controller is adopted in the laptop. According to our test, the only problem is caused by Ricoh Cardbus controller and several O2Micro ones, but the controllers of Texas Instruments, Toshiba, ENE should work well with our PCMCIA-FBUS S2 card.
Please have a try if you have Series 1 card in hand, it should work well with your laptop. It's simple to tell the 2 series by their labels:
-- Series 1: PCMCIA-FBUS
-- Series 2: NI PCMCIA-FBUS Series 2
If you don't have the S1 card, I would like to suggest you try another laptop whose Cardbus Controller is from TI or Toshiba.
To be honest, it is not an easy problem to solve for such hardware compatibility issue, but we will investigate further. Anyway, we are sorry for the inconvenience.

My NI FBUS PCMCIA card locks up HP nc6000 laptops

Is there a NI support engineer phone number I can give to a HP 3rd level engineer I have working on this to further investigate this problem.
They suspect an incompatibility with the 02Micro PCMCIA controller and the NI FBUS card.
HELP!

The PCMICA-FBUS is not compatible with O2Micro Cardbus controller. But it is compatible with other cardbus controllers like TI, Ricoh, Toshiba, NEC, CL and etc. In this case, you have to choose another laptop if you want to use the PCMCIA-FBUS card.
At the same time, National Instruments will release a new PCMCIA-FBUS Series 2 card soon (this month), which is compatible with O2Micro cardbus controller.

Firewire PCMCIA card recomendation

I'm looking to get a PCMCIA card for my laptop to enablea firewire connection to an external FW soundcard - can anyone recommend one that's Linux comaptible? Ideally not too expensive, although I'll need to get one which won't add to much noise to the audio signal.

Apologies, I suppose I should've posted this to the laptop sub forum - mods please feel free to move this!
Also, I've realised that my laptop needs an ExpressCard not a PCMCIA card - I had no idea they were different until now! I've purchased the following card:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003 … ge_o00_s00
It seems to work, although I have some permissions issues that I'm confident I can get sorted out.

PCMCIA firewire card for G4 laptop (follow-up to excessive timecode breaks)

1.) It was recommended that I get a new firewire bus to resolve excessive timecode breaks when importing from a Canon camcorder to an external hard drive. I've been reading through posts on this topic...and saw getting a new firewire port mentioned a few times... How come when I called Apple to check on the cost of a new firewire card for my laptop Powerbook G4, I was told that nothing could be added without replacing the entire logic board? Am I missing something? I didn't say "PCMCIA firewire drive" - is that something special? Any idea of the cost to purchase and install?
2.) Apple recommended just capturing to my internal hard drive, and transfering the projects. Apart from this being cumbersome... I need a little verification: if I transfer PROJECT X to my external hard drive, then do I also need to transfer my Audio Render, Autosave,Capture Scratch, Render, Thumbnail, and Waveform folders? [I realize this is basic, but I'm wary of losing the information the project needs and getting it all messed up]
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pcmcia is an card slot. If you have a 12" PB you may not have one.
If you have a pcmcia slot, buy the card. Slide the card into your computer and start up. Put the camcorder on the card and your fw drive on the port built-in to your computer. Even if this does not solve the timecode issues, it will save you other headaches in the future.
Question. Does capturing to your internal drive solve the timecode issues you are having?
I disagree with the advice of capturing to your internal drive and transfering the project after the fact. There are a bunch of reasons why, and all of them are qualified, so I hesitate to go further until I know whether or not capturing to the internal drive is making your timecode headaches go away.
I suspect capturing to the internal drive will not help the timecode issues which will make the whole point moot. But hopefully I'm wrong :>
Tom
ps
When you talk to representatives from Apple, you have to be conscious that if they are not specialists in the area you are focused on their advice may be based on general recommendations from an IT or home user perspective. There is a difference between talking to a sales person on the floor of the Apple Store and someone from the Genius Bar. And the person at the Genius Bar may have a tremendous background in network installations, but never have opened FCP. Or you might get lucky and get a FCP savvy genius, who would be a bit weak when talking about some other area.
This is not a knock, just a reality. It is difficult to be deeply conversant with even one area. It is not realistic for the generalists you usually deal with to know the best answers to very specific questions.
I'm working toward becoming a certified trainer with FCP and it is not easy or cheap to become an expert at this one application, never mind all the possible applications and hardware combinations for wildly different needs and budgets.

PCMCIA card firewire work on old laptop?

Hey!
I am trying to find a CD burner for my old WallStreet G3 233. I was wondering: if I were to buy a firewire PCMCIA card, would that (somehow) operate at the same speed as the SCSI port on the back of my machine?
See, I doubt it will because I already have a 2 port USB 2 card but it will only deliver USB 1 speeds (even though it's USB 2).
It will be hellish to find one of those old square SCSI adapters... unless I can actually find one that is either true USB2 or firewire. If I can, I will be the happiest guy on earth! Anyone know of any fixes for these problems?

Hi, Shane. A Wallstreet running OS 9.x can use a FireWire 400 PC card adapter. It should transmit data faster than your built-in SCSI port does, and it will certainly be faster than USB 1.1 (which is all you'll get on the Wallstreet, unless you upgrade to OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.4 or higher to gain USB 2 support). So a FireWire CD burner is a possibility for you. But be aware that there were some very good SCSI CD burners made a few years ago, especially by Yamaha, and they occasionally appear on Ebay at very reasonable prices. I still have and occasionally use my old 4x4x16x Yamaha SCSI CD-RW, which I got when it was brand new and the fastest burner money could buy for a Mac (!!). I also have the two different (and very expensive — about $50 each new) HDI-30 SCSI adapter cables for the Wallstreet: one for connecting peripherals, the other for using my PB in SCSI Disk Mode, which I used to do to back up its hard drive.
FireWire 400 (but not FW 800) is fully supported in OS 9, unlike USB 2. Here is one inexpensive FW 400 adapter card, though there are many others to choose from. One caution: it would probably be advisable to stay away from the combination FW and USB cards. They seem to be troublesome more often, especially in OS 9, than one-trick-pony cards.

Equium L10 doesn't recognise any wireless PCMCIA card that I install

Hi,
I've just bought a brand new Toshiba Equium L10 and I can't get any wireless card to install. I have tried different models from Belkin, Netgear and MSI, all of which work perfectly fine on other laptops but not on this one.
The L10 is a clean Windows XP SP2 build straight from the retailer and I am carrying out the following steps to install the wireless network card:
1. Start Windows XP SP2 and log on as admin
2. Run software for the wireless card
3. Insert wireless card
At this stage, windows only recognises the wireless card as an ethernet adaptor and won't install the drivers. Even if I install it manually and point it specifically to the correct directory, it still fails to pick up the drivers and says that there is nothing in the directory for the hardware that I am installing.
I have the latest BIOS for the L10 and have tried all of the following to no avail:
1. Disable USB legacy support in BIOS
2. Disable built in ethernet
3. Run Toshiba PC Diagnostics (reports that everything is working just fine including PCMCIA)
4. Rebuild laptop using supplied Toshiba DVD
Does anyone have any idea what could possibly be wrong? This is driving me crazy and I've never had this kind of issue with any other laptop. Is this a known fault with Toshiba laptops and what's the fix?
Is it a Win XP SP2 problem? Is my laptop faulty?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
K.
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Can you post the details of this card?
Did you contact the PCMCIA card manufacture for support? Maybe there is a new driver release for this card.
I have noticed some problems with a Vodafone PCMICA card on a Satellite P10. This card has caused a blue screen on the unit. Well, the disabling of hyper threading technology in the BIOS has solved this issue. On another cards the new driver release has also solved some strange problems.
However, what I would say is there are many things which could have a bad influence.
Firstly I would recommend to ask the card manufacture for a support.

Audigy 2 Z2 Notebook PCMCIA Card cannot install Creative Mediasource 5

. Every time I try and install CMS5 on the Audigy 2 Z2 Notebook PCMCIA Card, I keep getting this ERROR:
[color="#ff0000"]DoInstall Fails to Launch C:\Windows\CRF002\CTXInst\Setup.inx DoInstall return error code is - 2472332
here is the file name of the install: CMS5-BRNR_PCAPP_LB_5_0_44.exe
I have re-installed, all creative drivers, I even clean installed them, and i still get this error, any ideas?
EDIT: I fixed the problem, you have to install the older CMS5 before the latest new driver will work............well duh!
Message Edited by denb45 on 0-8-2009 06:5 [email protected]

Thank you for the reply split0,
as for the informati've post, thank you for the compliment, i tend to not open a thread at all unless i have spent enough time on the problem and searched around enough for solutions, and after that i only post if it has enough info regarding everything in inside the thread.
In regard to the known incompatibility list, unfortunatly this is one of the things i checked beforehand already.
The PCMCIA adapter in my laptop is a Texas Instruments PCI-8x2/7x2/6x2 CardBus-controller.
Which is one of the most common controllers and should normally not cause any troubles at all, also in another thread on this forum i found a differant driver for it, i even tried that with no result sadly.
At the moment personally i am thinking the whole problem lies within not being able to uninstall the onboard sound card to full extent somehow, and while i posted here i also have all this info in a direct message sent to creative, and even acer for that matter.
In hopes of some kind of solution for this so i can keep my hopes up for not having to return the card itself.
What bugs me is that there is option at all to disable the onboard sound through the bios.
Because right now whenever i install the ZS notebook card it checks hardware for the onboard first installing it again, then setting priority for the zs notebook.
This is what seems to result in the crashes through a conflict in drivers in my idea, but thats just a hunch which i cant do anything about currently in regard to testing unless someone has an idea for me to try.
Message Edited by Natharneal on 05-23-2008 0:54 PM

Firmware for 3Com Bluetooth PCMCIA card

I've just recieved my new 3com pcmcia bluetooth card (3CRWB6096). According to google it was supposed to work with Linux.
I think it will, but there's something about needing the windows firmware file- BT3CPCC.bin. I have said file, and have tried putting it in both /etc/bluetooth/firmware and /lib/firmware (where the community package bluez-firmware puts similar files for other cards).
However, I'm still getting the following in dmesg on plugging the card in...
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
bt3c_interrupt: Call of irq 4 for unknown device
bt3c_open: Firmware request failed
bt3c_interrupt: Call of irq 4 for unknown device
bt3c_open: Firmware request failed
bt3c_interrupt: Call of irq 4 for unknown device
So the question is- where do I put this file? What should it be called? Is it in the kernel config or something? Where do I find out?
Any pointers would be very much appreciated
Thanks in advance
Simon

Some progress...
Oh I'm stupid. It turned out that I hadn't properly extracted the firmware, and that the file was actually empty. Once I managed to get the file out of the package, I put it in /lib/firmware/BT3CPCC.bin and it now loads it. However, hciconfig reports the device as having the address 00:00:00:00:00, and times out when trying to start or reset it.
I found someone with a Debian laptop and bluez installed at a recent LUG meeting. It worked! So now I know that it's possible. I then downloaded debian and installed in on a spare partition. After finally realising that I hadn't upgraded to a 2.6 kernel, I got my card working there as well. That's with bluez 2.15 and a patched kernel 2.6.8, which is quite a lot older than Arch's packages (I"m especially surprised at the kernel version).
So, where can I get hold of Arch packages for bluez 2.x?
Thanks
Simon

What is a PCMCIA card used for

A friend keeps asking me what a PCMCIA card is and does she need it and does apple have it. I said its used mainly for laptops? Can someone clarify and is it a good thing to have? I have a G4 quicksilver and may get an Imac but just need to know what this card does. I read somewhere Apple does not have it?

PMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
These are cards which add, if you like, an extended function to the computer they are inserted into. A common example was a modem or a netowrk connection. Not all computers have (or need) these.
Apple's most recent notebook computers, for example the MacBookPro, have a new type of card called the Express/34 card (34mm wide). Old PMCIA cards will not work in this port and the Express/34 cards do not work in older PMCIA ports.
It is a good thing to have if you need the function.
The latest iMacs do not have this port, but you would probably never need this anyway.

Ethernet PC card on compaq laptop

Hi
any one can tell me about the ethernet pc cards which supports for solaris x86 on laptop. or can i use usb wireless network adaptor fornetworking .if so can u please tell how to enable usb port on laptop for solaris to recognise wireless adaptor.
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I finally got PCMCIA to work. But it was a battle.
My ethernet card DLINK DFE-690 TXD will NOT work with Arch 0.7. (It does work when using the Arch 0.7 Installation CD but after installation, it does not work).
I tried everything. (e.g. disabling almost everything in rc.conf and the config scripts). I even tried manually inserting the modules using modprobe. And then running dhcpcd. But dhcpcd failed since the ethernet PCMCIA card was "BUSY".
I found the BUG! The problem is with the 2.6.10 kernel that the arch 0.7 CD installs. In other words, the stock IDE or SCSI kernels that come with the 0.7 installation CD's are buggy.
I reinstalled arch usng FTP install. (arch 0.7.1 is then installed with a newer kernel 2.6.13). Arch 0.7.1 was able to properly detect and setup my PCMCIA card and get networking going.
I did NOT enable the pcmcia or hotplug daemons in rc.conf. You do NOT need to. They automatically get set up in the loadng modules stage (where some auto detection is being done).
So if anyone else is having problems, just use the FTP installation which installs arch 0.7.1 and a newer kernel 2.6.13.
Rob

Has anyone gotten the FBUS PCMCIA card to work on a PCI to PCMCIA adapter board?

I have lots of success with the PCMCIA card in laptop PCMCIA slots, but no luck with the PCMCIA card in a desktop PC with a Quatech PCD-B/PCI-E PCI adapter for PCMCIA boards. I am thinking that my problem resides with the adapter board but I would like to know if anyone has had success with the FBUS series 2 PCMCIA card with a PCI to PCMCIA adapter. I got a WinXP SP2 IBM ThinkCentre desktop. Thanks

We have ever used some PCMCIA to PCI adaptors, they are working properly with NI PCMCIA-FBUS card as well as NI-FBUS software.
I'd like to recommend the single CardBus PCMCIA slot adaptor from Elan Digital System:
http://www.elandigitalsystems.com/adapter/pci.php
We have used the adaptor in a Dell Dimension desktop, running XP SP2, and NI-FBUS Configurator 3.1.1 runs well.
Another adaptor is a long card, which is Gigabyte GA-MPCI, it works well with some old desktops, but the length of the card is about twice of the card of Elan Digital System; it might not fit your requirement.
Hope it helps.

Using the WRT54G3G-ST with cellular PCMCIA cards other than Sprint?

I am looking at using a Cingular PCMCIA "aircard" with my laptop, but would also like to take advantage of it at home for a desktops with wi-fi adapter when not in use with my laptop. The WRT54G3G-ST seems to only be sold from Sprint (in the US at least), but I am wondering whether folks here have experience using it with any other vendor cellular broadband cards? It would seem that this SHOULD work, but I wanted to see whether there are any known gatchas.

Have you changed Sprint login info to Cingular info?
In notebook, load Sierra Watcher software, verify card connects thru watcher, then ask watcher for particulars of connection to Cingular.
Change all the Sprint connection info to Cingular.
One other problem, Sprint frequencies may differ. Sierra web has pdf with command set of Sierra cards, so you can ask card for frequency band it is using.
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