PCMCIA Does Not Work

Support knowledgebase (pcmcia_sgehdnix)

Symptom:

PCMCIA does not work at all.

Cause:

1. Please make sure that the package "pcmcia", series "a", is installed. You can find out the version number by entering "rpm -q pcmcia". If the package is not installed, please install it with YaST.
2. The cardmanager cardmgr has not been started (solution below).

Solution

Set the PCMCIA variable in the file /etc/rc.config (up to SuSE Linux version 7.3 or /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia (from SuSE Linux version 8.0 on). It should look similar to this:

PCMCIA="i82365"

Remark:

If the PCMCIA network card is going to be permanently available in the machine, the network can be configured as usual with yast. On the other hand, if you want to change the network card while the system is active, the file /etc/pcmcia/network.opts must be edited. Please refer to the PCMCIA HOWTO for this purpose.

There are numerous manpages containing specific information about single driver modules. These manpages can be displayed with:

rpm -ql pcmcia | grep man