[ltp] PCMCIA wireless

[Simon Royal]

Jay

I checked my bios and I found PCI power saving options. It is set to
Automatic at present.

The Zydas based wireless is a USB stick and it works no problems out
of the box with Ubuntu.

My Edimax card that is RaLink based, this is the one causing power
issues. I have been using this Broadcom based Buffalo card for about
24 hours - no problems.

Simon

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jay Brooks <jaybrooks76@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zydas was purchased by atheros a while back. Belkin and ativa made usb
> sticks based off of that chipset.=A0 It is a bear to get working. I would=
 go
> and get a better card. You know in the bios you should be able to turn of=
f
> the power save settings for pci and pcmcia. Did you try that? I had the s=
ame
> issues with a mpci card that was fixed by turning off that feature.
>
> Sent via MOTOBLUR=99 on Verizon Wireless
>
> -----Original message-----
>
> From: Simon Royal <mrsimonroyal@gmail.com>
> To: Linux ThinkPad <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
> Sent: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:25:10 GMT+00:00
> Subject: [ltp] PCMCIA wireless
>
> Hi
>
> Ive had a number of power problems under Ubuntu and finally worked out it
> was to do with my Edimax PCMCIA wireless card.
>
> It works fine but causes oddities when running off battery. I know it sou=
nds
> odd but I have tried everything else to resolve it locking up under batte=
ry
> and without it in it works fine. So I switched to a USB wireless stick.
>
> Now, I broke one of my USB ports yesterday and would like to free up the
> other one by getting rid of the USB wireless stick I have.
>
> What I would like to know is, is my lock up problems going to happen with
> any PCMCIA wireless card or just my Edimax which is RaLink based.
>
> My USB stick is a PlusCom which in Windows shows up as a ZyDas. It is 112=
1B
> based, which is not RaLink.
>
> I have a Broadcom based Buffalo card floating around which I know works
> under Linux with additional drivers available.
>
> I need to work out whether it is the PCMCIA bus causing problems or just =
the
> card.
>
> Any help, advice or previous experience appreciated.
>
> Simon
>



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