[mdlug] PCMCIA card stopped working

[Raymond McLaughlin]

David Lee Lambert wrote:

> 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?
> 
> --
> DLL

Take a flashlight and look in the slot for any bent or broken pins.
Can you locate another laptop with a cardbus slot to try the cards in?
Do you have any other cards to try in the slot?
I would suspect the slot or the dongle, it seems unlikely that both
cards were damaged.