[mdlug] PCMCIA card stopped working

[Novak, Louis (L.M.)]

Go wireless and you'll never go back.

I have a couple of older Orinoco Gold cards that
are well supported.

Do you want one? 


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-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of David Lee Lambert
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 6:59 AM
To: MDLUG's main mailing list
Subject: [mdlug] PCMCIA card stopped working

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
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