pcmcia

[big cat]

just installed mint on my dell latitude c-400. It will not recognize my pcmcia nor my serial port. As a side not it worked on Ubuntu, but i like mint better
When i go to the hardware manager it says that it is there, but it still does not see anything i plug into it.
As a try i pluged a 2g flash drive into it and it does nothing, but the system sees it when i plug it into the main usb slot on the pc itself.
any ideas??

[big cat]

i got this:
joe@joe-laptop:~$ sudo lspci -m
00:00.0 "Host bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge" -r04 "" ""
00:02.0 "VGA compatible controller" "Intel Corporation" "82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]" -r04 "Dell" "Unknown device 00c8"
00:02.1 "Display controller" "Intel Corporation" "82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]" "Dell" "Unknown device 00c8"
00:1d.0 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1" -r02 "Intel Corporation" "Latitude C640"
00:1e.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801 Mobile PCI Bridge" -r42 "" ""
00:1f.0 "ISA bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC)" -r02 "" ""
00:1f.1 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "82801CAM IDE U100 Controller" -r02 -p8a "Intel Corporation" "Latitude C640"
00:1f.5 "Multimedia audio controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller" -r02 "Cirrus Logic" "Crystal WMD Audio Codec"
00:1f.6 "Modem" "Intel Corporation" "82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller" -r02 "PCTel Inc" "Dell Inspiron 2100 internal modem"
02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "3Com Corporation" "3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]" -r78 "Dell" "Unknown device 00c8"
02:01.0 "CardBus bridge" "Texas Instruments" "PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller" -r02 "Dell" "Unknown device 00c8"
02:03.0 "Network controller" "Broadcom Corporation" "BCM4311 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver" -r02 "Dell" "Unknown device 0005"
03:00.0 "USB Controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller" -r61 "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller"
03:00.1 "USB Controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller" -r61 "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller"
03:00.2 "USB Controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "USB 2.0" -r63 -p20 "VIA Technologies, Inc." "USB 2.0"
03:00.3 "FireWire (IEEE 1394)" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "IEEE 1394 Host Controller" -r46 -p10 "" ""


i tried the insert command and it did nothing,
i also got this:
lspci: invalid option -- l
Usage: lspci [<switches>]

-v Be verbose
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-b Bus-centric view (PCI addresses and IRQ's instead of those seen by the CPU)
-x Show hex-dump of the standard portion of config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only selected devices
-t Show bus tree
-m Produce machine-readable output
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
-D Always show domain numbers
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)
-P <dir> Use specified directory instead of /proc/bus/pci
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read configuration data from given file
-G Enable PCI access debugging

I think that mint sees the card, but i don't understand why when i plug something in it doesn't see it.

[Guest]

i will try that other link tonight when i get home...
the flash memory is a stick, and is a scan disk. It works in the normal usb on the side of the laptop. And yes you would think the pcmcia would just work, it just worked when i had ubuntu.
I also have a very old ipod that uses fire wire, that is also on that pcmcia card i have. It also did not work, it charged, but never came up on the computer, mint doesn't see either peice.
As a side note both worked on Ubuntu.

[big cat]

thanks for your time bradodo.
I was using ubuntu 7.1. Which worked ok, but mint recognizes my wireless card, and downloaded the appropriate driver on it's own.
Anyway ubuntu 7.1 with the pcmcia worked like a champ. It saw my ipod, which is so old that i can only use a fire wire . It mounted and i was able to see all the songs on there. And i have no other way to hook up the pod so i have no way to tell if this problem is issolated. However since my sandisk... spell check that one, works perfectly on the onboard usb, i would assume there is some sort of problem with mint not seeing past the pcmcia.
As a note i did not try the pcmcia before i updated my version, which is darina. Should i reinstall, and try the pcmcia card before i update?

[big cat]

well i thought that it was just mint, but i reinstalled ubuntu 7.1 and i have the same problem.
The wireless card works now, so that's good, but for whatever reason, the pcmcia slot is not going through. Ubuntu sees that there is a card in there, but nothing connected to it.
I will try to get another card, or see if my card works on another machine.