[PLUG] Re: WiFi (still): diagnosing lack of card recognition
Bill Spears
bspears at easystreet.com
Mon Apr 19 10:14:01 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:55, ryan at 1138.net wrote:
> Rich Shepard writes:
>
>
> >
> > Where do I start to diagnose this problem? The card _does_ light up when
> > placed in another laptop known to work.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Rich
>
> On my last laptop I spent a lot of time trying to diagnose card/driver
> problems, and it turned out one of the PCMCIA slots was bad. If your laptop
> has two PCMCIA slots, I'd suggest making sure you've tried the other slot.
>
On my notebook, I sometimes have to remove and reinsert the card(just a
regular network card, not wireless) in order to get the two beeps on my
system that indicate the card has been detected. I don't know if that
means the slot is bad, my software is mal-configured, or what.
--
Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>
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