Trouble with Belkin F5D5020? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Tuesday March 26, 2002 @02:55AM from the tech-support dept.

yaway_rerout writes "Using the Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA NIC has be come the most convenient hassle of my life. I have a Hitachi visionbook 4000 plus, running RH 7.1. Setup everything as outlined on the MobiliX site and the card works great... for about 2 weeks. Then I'll boot my box and the card wont load or recognize, and then if I do a /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart my box locks and I am out of High memory.. I eject the card and everything is back to normal. I take the card back to CrampUSA and exchange it for a new one of the same... and viola it works with no need to change config options. Until about 2 weeks later... it craps out again. This has been going on too long... (I'm on my 4th exchange). Anyone else have a similar experience? Could it be the way Linux handles PCMCIA? Is there a way to reset these cards or something? ARG!!!!"

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I can see what this is by hkon · 2002-03-26 03:04 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Slashdot is now so low on cash that they've started doing tech-support for the local computer store. In the future, expect stories like "Ask Slashdot: How do I make my new SoundBlaster work with Linux", "Ask Slashdot: My harddrive seems slow, what can be wrong with it" and "Ask Slashdot: My hotmail.com e-mailaddress doesn't work anymore, why?".