[FC2] Best option for PCMCIA Wireless card

[tmolina at cablespeed.com]

>> In any case, it 
>> doesn't even get that far -- the pcmcia system doesn't 
>>see any sockets to 
>> talk to so it never sees the NIC to initialize it.  I 
>>tried booting with 
>> your suggested options; they didn't help.  I still get 
>>the no sockets 
>> found message.
>
>Does your bios have any settings that would affect PCMCIA 
>like "PCIC
>Compatible", or perhaps you have the ability to manually 
>assign IRQ's?
>(unlikely in laptops) or even a PnP/no PnP toggle?

Nothing of the sort.  It may have a PnP toggle, but none 
of the others you mentioned.  The BIOS has very limited 
tuning options.

Like I said, I have hardly done anything beyond drop a 
default install on the machine.  It has run practically 
every version of RedHat since 7.3 or so.  It has run a 
variety of 2.5 and 2.6-bk kernels.  My immediate WAG is 
that this is a kernel issue.  There is certainly something 
different about the way pcmcia is being initialized during 
bootup.