PCMCIA card not recognized

[Floppyman]

Hey all,

I recently bought a Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA network card. After I installed windows it was recognized and worked fine. The next day, the card was not recognized anymore in windows. The laptop recognized it as being there so I know the PCMCIA slots are fine. It shows up under windows 98 on the taskbar, but when I click on it, I only get

Socket 1
(Empty) Socket 2

No name or nothing under socket 1 and it is not recognized under network adapters. Plus when it is in there and I take it out, it feels really warm. I contacted Linksys, they think it's dead, so I got an RMA already. I'm shipping it back tomorrow unless someone can convince me to try something else. Thanks!

[sedu]

If you don't get a beep during startup, then something is wrong with the card or its drivers. If another card is recognized in the same slot, then that rules out the pcmcia controller being corrupted. Just the opposite of my ususal problem of having Windows load the cards a couple of times.

[Floppyman]

Thanks sedu,

Nope don't get that beep (got it the first time when it worked though), card must be dead...no clue as to why. I'll send it back tomorrow.

[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

I ran into a similiar problem with an EtherLink III LAN + Modem card I was trying to use in one of my laptops. tried everything, it would ocassionally decide to run. finally, after reserving the resources as specified in the c:\windows\hardware.txt under the heading "Zenith NoteFLEX 486DX and PC Cards", it started working. well, that's not entirely correct, I reserved CD000-CDFFF and IRQ 10.

of course, after the problem started, no cards were detected...I tried a plain modem card and my Zip 250 and neither were detected. I have no idea what changed to make it quit working, but if other cards are working OK...then I'd say this has absolutely nothing to do with anything and the card is probably just dead. 8)

[Floppyman]

Thanks for the reply,

I did some more toying around today, and I do get a beep, right before the win98se splash screen comes up. I tried adding the card manually. It then did show up under device manager, but it said somethline ntkern.vxd and and another card couldn't load the device drivers for the card, any ideas there? thanks again.

[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

well, you try setting up a bootdisk with dos drivers + card services(if it needs it), etc...get it all hammered out, then see if works properly. if it does, then you know it's a windows issue. did Linksys ship it with any configuration utilities?

I'm sorry, I've never really considered Linksys a very good company, so I really know nothing at all about their products. I tend to like to stay mainstream as far as NICs go....that way I know I'll have support, regardless of the OS I choose.

[Floppyman]

Thanks for the reply,

Decided after a couple more (unsuccessful) tries to get a new one, so I RMA'd it back today. I'll let you know if it works when I get the new one.