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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!!!!"
I am the cheese.
Long time reader, first time poster.
/. lately. It appears to me that much of the spark that was once /. is gone. There are more and more articles posted that have less then ten comments. Is it the articles? Is it that posters are getting arthritis? Is it the job hunt that takes so much time? IMHO /. is running out of steam. Too many of the articles are of little or no interest to the community.
How is this "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."???
Sure I don't get into black holes, I'm mildly interested in nanotech, and I'm sick of anime. However usually that's news, this looks to me like someone who doesn't know how to use technical support. The linux community has thousands of places where something like this can be solved, usually very quickly.
I've become more and more disappointed by