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Trouble with Belkin F5D5020?
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!!!!"
Try a different PCMCIA card and see if it does the same thing. My guess is that the power delivery isn't stable, else Belkin would surely have spotted the issue and fixed it, rather than lose a truckload of money on replacement NICs. Have the laptop checked out by someone competent (which excludes that screwdriver-tech at the local shop who proudly displays his mail-order diploma).
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Stick with what works, mang!