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whatsreal

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Registered: 2007-01-05

Posts: 2

PCMCIA card stopped working

I have two identical PCMCIA 802.11b cards with lucent chipsets in them.  When I upgraded all my packages yesterday they stopped being recognized.

When I plug one in my dmesg output is: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0

here is a list of the packages I updated/installed

[2008-09-15 07:12] synchronizing package lists
[2008-09-15 07:12] starting full system upgrade
[2008-09-15 07:14] synchronizing package lists
[2008-09-15 07:14] starting full system upgrade
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded cracklib (2.8.10-5 -> 2.8.12-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded pcre (7.7-2 -> 7.8-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded glib2 (2.16.5-1 -> 2.18.0-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded gtypist (2.7-1 -> 2.8-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded hwdetect (0.9-1 -> 0.9-3)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded inputproto (1.4.3-1 -> 1.4.4-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded jfsutils (1.1.12-2 -> 1.1.13-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded libdrm (2.3.0-1 -> 2.3.1-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded libtasn1 (1.4-1 -> 1.5-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded libxau (1.0.3-1 -> 1.0.4-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded xcb-proto (1.1-1 -> 1.2-1)
[2008-09-15 07:14] upgraded libxcb (1.1-1 -> 1.1.90.1-1)
[2008-09-15 07:15] upgraded libx11 (1.1.4-2 -> 1.1.5-1)
[2008-09-15 07:15] upgraded mdadm (2.6.4-1 -> 2.6.7-1)
[2008-09-15 07:15] upgraded pcmciautils (014-4 -> 015-1)
[2008-09-15 07:15] upgraded sdparm (1.02-2 -> 1.03-1)
[2008-09-15 07:15] upgraded xfsprogs (2.9.8-1 -> 2.10.1-1)
[2008-09-15 07:15] removed quodlibet (1.0-3)
[2008-09-15 09:04] installed faad2 (2.6.1-1)
[2008-09-15 09:04] installed libmikmod (3.1.12-1)
[2008-09-15 09:04] installed libmpcdec (1.2.6-1)
[2008-09-15 09:05] installed libsamplerate (0.1.4-1)
[2008-09-15 09:05] installed libao (0.8.8-2)
[2008-09-15 09:05] ==> mpd: Create a config under /etc/mpd.conf before using MPD (Example: /etc/mpd.conf.example)
[2008-09-15 09:05] installed mpd (0.13.2-1)
[2008-09-15 09:05] installed ncmpc (0.11.1-5)
[2008-09-15 09:05] installed mpc (0.12.1-3)
[2008-09-15 19:01] synchronizing package lists
[2008-09-15 19:02] synchronizing package lists
[2008-09-15 19:02] starting full system upgrade
[2008-09-15 19:03] upgraded libtasn1 (1.5-1 -> 1.5-2)
[2008-09-15 19:03] upgraded man-pages (3.08-1 -> 3.09-1)
[2008-09-15 19:03] upgraded openssh (5.0p1-2 -> 5.1p1-1)

My PCMCIA slot works with a really old dlink airpro a/b card.  So it is not that.

Any ideas?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: PCMCIA card stopped working

> [2008-09-15 07:15] upgraded pcmciautils (014-4 -> 015-1)

I'd suspect that one.
See if you still have the old version in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and downgrade with pacman -U.

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mancino

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Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 41

Re: PCMCIA card stopped working

your is not a solution my friend byte.
there is absolutly a solution
we must search.
i am triyng
bye

Erik Xian

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Registered: 2008-09-15

Posts: 18

Re: PCMCIA card stopped working

I'm having this exact same problem. While irritating, I have a temporary workaround, although I would like to be able to use my PCMCIA cards without it.

To use the workaround, add the following to /etc/rc.local:

pcmcia-socket-startup

mancino

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Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 41

Re: PCMCIA card stopped working

good  Erik
now work for me too
maybe we must look for some config.opts script
bye

mancino

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Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 41

Re: PCMCIA card stopped working

i prefer rc.local solution
it's more clean according to me
bye friend