[Gllug] 32-bit CardBus in laptop

[Frank Scott]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:27:10PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> My new craptop supports 32-bit CardBus and I got a 802.11g wireless card 
> with it that worked under Wiondows XP.  However, under Linux the card 
> doesn't even seem to be attempting to be detected.  The card 
> specifically says "32-bit CardBus" on it.
> 
> Normally when you plug in a card (supported or not), Hotplug picks up 
> the insertion event and then either loads the relevant modules or not.  
> However with this one I'm not getting anything.  Just nothing.
> 
> So what's different between my Linux setup and how WinXP worked?  It's a 
> stock Ubuntu kernel and install.
> 

All the 82.11g Cardbus cards I've come across recently have had windows
only drivers and I've had to use ndiswrapper together with the windows
driver to get them  to work.

This might help

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=1&threadid=313607

Frank

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