[mdlug] PCMCIA card stopped working

[David Lee Lambert]

I have a Compaq Armada laptop running Linux.  I've been using a PCMCIA Ethernet adapter:  "Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100", model NP100.  It's the kind that has a little dongle to connect to the Ethernet cable.  

The other day,  one of my sons pulled either the dongle or the card out while the computer was on,  and now it won't work.  I actually have two cards (exactly the same) and only one dongle, so I tried it with the other card; it still won't work.  In the past I've been able to connect and disconnect the dongle without causing trouble.  The cards show up in "pccardctl ls", and I have an "eth0" interface,  but the lights on the dongle don't come on and I can't ping any other host on the network I'm connected to.  

I'm trying to decide what's broken;  if I'm sure that the PCMCIA slot is still OK, then I can get another card of the same model and hope the dongle works,  or get a wireless PCMCIA card and wireless router.  If the slot itself is burned out or something,  I could get a USB adapter.  Any advice?

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DLL