Comment 1 for bug 75423

Hello,

I'm new in Linux, and my english is bad, so please sorry in advance for the mistakes and thank you for your comprehension.

I would like to add a comment to this bug, because it seems that I have the same problem, and a wise guy on a forum adviced me to let a message here

Link to the forum (french): http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=136134

I tried to install the alternate version of Ubuntu 7.04 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 (an old one) :))
- Pentium II 266 Mhz
- 256 MB of RAM
- other old good things...
- no ethernet port, but a double pcmcia port

The problem is that when I inserted a wireless pcmcia card (or a pc card reader), the system didn't reacted at all (nothing new in dmesg) - the wireless card was operational under Windows 98.

As you can see, no CardBus seems to be listed in lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12)
00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23)

We tried different things (modprobe pcmcia, ...), but still no changes in dmesg

Then, we found a guy that installed successfully breezy on the same machine : http://outlands.ca/linux/t8000.html

I also tried to install breezy, and to make the upgrades until feisty to see if it was a problem with the kernel or with the pcmciautils package (available only since dapper).

The result is that now the pcmcia port works perfectly, and with feisty!!! Youpi! That's the reason why, I suppose that the driver I need is no more available in pcmciautils, but I haven't idea how to be sure of that.

The lspci is still the same now, but these were the changes in dmesg when I inserted the wifi card, with the breezy live-CD:

[4295427.733000] cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
[4295435.764000] orinoco 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson <email address hidden>, Pavel Roskin <email address hidden>, et al)
[4295435.793000] orinoco_cs 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson <email address hidden>, Pavel Roskin <email address hidden>, et al)
[4295435.894000] eth0: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002
[4295435.894000] eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0010
[4295435.894000] eth0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 6.16
[4295435.894000] eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
[4295435.894000] eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
[4295435.894000] eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
[4295435.894000] eth0: MAC address 00:02:A5:6F:4C:BA
[4295435.894000] eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
[4295435.895000] eth0: ready
[4295435.913000] eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f

Hope that these informations are helpful, and will provide other ones with pleasure if needed.