Linux doesn't 'initiate' Card Bus card
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:41 pm
Hello all
My 560Z, running Linux Antix has been doing some strange things yesterday and today. Recently I got a 3Com XJack WLAN card, that was ideal for this laptop. Retractable antenna, so it could stay plugged in all the time. I used the laptop with this card 2 times, and all was fine. But the 3rd time I rebooted, there were no networks available. The green LED on the card gives a flash every 4th second, but iwconfig indicates that no wlan interfaces are available.
I did some investigations, and it turns out that my other CNet Card Bus WLAN card works just fine in the 560Z. Further, to exclude that the 3Com card itself is defective, I tested it out in a T42 with XP. And the card worked fine as soon as the 3Com specific driver/software was installed.
So what I am left with is the dmesg | less readings from Antix, which shows that a Card Bus object is inserted into Socket 0 (Or 1), but nothing more happens. When the CNet card is inserted, there are 5-6 more status lines, which tell that drivers and resources are assigned. So the card just doesn't initiate anything when it's inserted. The OS detects that it's inserted, and then nothing..
Does anybody have any clue as to why this happens, and if there are some basic things that I am missing here? Any Modprobe(?) or other config files somewhere that blacklists or disables this card? If this had been the 600, I could have done a fresh install, but with the lack of CD-ROM it's a little bit more work included. Or I can just use one of my other cards. But I am curious as to why this happens, and would like to solve it. By request I can post details from dmesg or any other terminal outputs.
Thanks for all input!
My 560Z, running Linux Antix has been doing some strange things yesterday and today. Recently I got a 3Com XJack WLAN card, that was ideal for this laptop. Retractable antenna, so it could stay plugged in all the time. I used the laptop with this card 2 times, and all was fine. But the 3rd time I rebooted, there were no networks available. The green LED on the card gives a flash every 4th second, but iwconfig indicates that no wlan interfaces are available.
I did some investigations, and it turns out that my other CNet Card Bus WLAN card works just fine in the 560Z. Further, to exclude that the 3Com card itself is defective, I tested it out in a T42 with XP. And the card worked fine as soon as the 3Com specific driver/software was installed.
So what I am left with is the dmesg | less readings from Antix, which shows that a Card Bus object is inserted into Socket 0 (Or 1), but nothing more happens. When the CNet card is inserted, there are 5-6 more status lines, which tell that drivers and resources are assigned. So the card just doesn't initiate anything when it's inserted. The OS detects that it's inserted, and then nothing..
Does anybody have any clue as to why this happens, and if there are some basic things that I am missing here? Any Modprobe(?) or other config files somewhere that blacklists or disables this card? If this had been the 600, I could have done a fresh install, but with the lack of CD-ROM it's a little bit more work included. Or I can just use one of my other cards. But I am curious as to why this happens, and would like to solve it. By request I can post details from dmesg or any other terminal outputs.
Thanks for all input!
Over the years I have done changes in the Windows registry to solve various problems, including CD-roms and USB devices that refused to work. (So thanks for the link, good to know) But in Linux I'm lost. I know there are config files around that can be edited like text files, and these do probably to some extent resemble the registry. But even though I have come a long way since the first time I visited the Linux world, I don't know enough about it yet. 
