FC4 Not detecting my pcmcia card?

[manyxcxi]

I was about to post how FC4 won't even detect my Linksys WPC54G pcmcia wlan card on my Sony Vaio PCG-FXA63, but my output from 'lspci' shows:
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02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

'lspci -n' shows this:
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02:00.0 Class 0280: 104c:9066

However 'cardctl info' gives me:
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

when i check the kernel log some messages I see with some relevance, maybe are:
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PCMCIA: socket cee1b044: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
PCMCIA: socket cee1b044: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-oxa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-oxa0ffffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-ox60ffffff: excluding 0x60000000-ox60ffffff
cs: warning: no high memory space available!
....

With Linuxant, I got what should be my drivers installed off the cd, lsbcmnds.inf and bcmwl5.sys (apparently the inf depends on the sys file), but it says it cant detect that my hardware is there.
During boot up it says its starting my pcmcia services and doesn't report any problems, and under hardware browser -> PCMCIA/PC-Card devices it shows Texas Instruments PCI1420 for each slot and yenta_socket for each driver. I'm assuming this means that it sees them as being empty.

I guess basically, my question, being that I'm a pretty big noob, what do I do to get my pcmcia card even recognized? Then i can probably join the other minions in asking why I can't get my wlan card to work.

oh, and ps.. for some reason when I do a shutdown or reboot it doesn't really shutdown or reboot my laptop.. it just gives me a black screen like its thinking about maybe doing something at some point.

[manyxcxi]

uninstalled linuxant and am using ndiswrapper.. still no luck..
With linuxant or ndiswrapper if I use LSTINDS.INF from V2 Drivers they say they can see my network card, although cardtl ident and info still give me nothing. Also, if I `modprobe ndiswrapper` after installing the LSTINDS.INF drivers, my laptop locks up. Linuxant did the same thing. They would lock up on reboot. However, if I use the lsbcmnds.inf drivers off the same CD, it says the drivers are good, but it doesn't see my card as being available. And finally.. if i `lspci -v` the info I get is:

06:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0033
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at 1102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8k]
Memory at 1100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128k]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

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cardctl status gives me:
Socket 0:
no card
Socket 1:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]

I find it odd that cardctl tells me i have a card in there but can't get any info from it. It will insert and eject it, but it still doesn't give it any info

[erroneus]

I assume you have confirmed that it works in Windows? Have you tested any other devices in the PCMCIA slot? Sounds a lot like there's something wrong with the card or the slot.

[manyxcxi]

It works fine in windows, in either slot. The other thing that I notice is that my power light doesn't come on when inserted, either.

[alerman]

I have the exact same problem with the card. No power light or anything. Card and slot work fine in windows.

[pgb]

I don't have that particular card, but I do have a PCI ACX111-based wireless card. I've had much better luck with the real Linux drivers - see the project at http://acx100.sf.net .

Note though that the download location that normally has the latest drivers is http://lisas.de/~andi/acx100/ which is the main developer's own site - the sf.net CVS is _not_ up to date at all. Recently some development snapshots have been made available at http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/ and mirrored at http://acx100.erley.org/ ; these have worked quite well for me.

Some windows drivers just don't work in Linux under ndiswrapper because of different choices in memory handling in Linux and Windows; that might be causing the immediate crashes. When I tried ndiswrapper while the acx100 driver was not as good as it is now I got immediate lockups with all driver versions that supported WPA. Older drivers worked most of the time, but occasionally appeared to hang the computer.

[imdeemvp]

I wonder if this is a kernel problem?

[Doug Anderson]

I've got the same card with the same problem on a laptop with the same lspci output.

I've tried ndiswrapper and linuxant both. I think we're missing something obvious, so I'll keep on looking, but I don't see why Core is detecting the Linksys card as a Texas Instraments card. That's weird.

[manyxcxi]

I believe it detects it as a TI, because thats the chipset that it uses

[igorgf]

I have Linksys wpc54g successfully installed in my Sony PCG-FX250K lappy thanks to :
http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php - great resource.

[manyxcxi]

wow! that worked awesome! exactly what I was looking for! Having a couple dhcp problems, it won't connect to my access point and recognize the connection, BUT it is recognizing the card and setting up my wlan.

[manyxcxi]

as it would turn out.. if i scan for networks using: iwlist wlan0 scan i am not able to find any and cannot associate with my access point