Pcmcia-fbus/2 card start up

I'm using NI-FBUS Configurator 3.2.1 in combination with the PCMCIA/2 series 2 cards.
At startup the fieldbus communication manager will not start up (hang) until my conector of the card is disconnected.
Both ports are set as link master device. (p.s.CM does startup fine on the same segment in combination with a singel port card)
I reproduced this failure on different laptops with the same result.
Somebody else with the same problems?

Please send an email to us from www.ni.com/ask with some detailed information, including the date you bought the card, and the error code or screenshot of the hang.
Ryan Shi
National Instruments

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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.
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There is no such limit of CM 4.0.1 to work with PCMCIA-FBUS interface.
We only have problem with some Dell Laptop because of some hardware issue.
Please refer to the related discussion link:
http://forums.ni.com/t5/FOUNDATION-Fieldbus/NI-FBUS-PC-Card-detected-wrong/td-p/1658478
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ehci_hcd 37256 0
parport_pc 29124 0
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pcspkr 4172 0
eth1394 21256 0
8139too 28032 0
ohci1394 36404 0
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yenta_socket 23816 3
rsrc_nonstatic 14208 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 52228 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
3c59x 42792 0
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snd_intel8x0 34752 0
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snd 60388 7
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soundcore 10848 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10244 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
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pci_hotplug 30788 0
joydev 10688 0
tsdev 8384 0
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00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801 USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
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