'lo all,

I've been struggling with this for a week now... My laptop is a
generic Centrino machine with the Intel 2100Pro swapped (at purchase)
for a generic Prism2 miniPCI WiFi NIC.

Everything worked fine in Slack9 w/2.4.26 with the orinico_cs patch
for monitor mode. (Yes, I know this wasn't the 'proper' driver)

Anyway - I've loaded Slack10 on another partition, pulled 2.6.7 from
kernel.org and applied Marcel Holtmann's BlueTooth patch (using an
Apple BT keyboard and Logitech MX900 happily here ... but my WiFi
card is *NOT* being detected.

Now - in Slack9/2.4, my miniPCI WiFi card appeared in PCMCIA socket 0
and worked just fine, there's a button to toggle the power to it (and
the BT and webcam) and it acted just as a PCMCIA would...

But in Slack10/2.6.7, it doesn't detect. I try 'cardctl insert 0' and
I get a message in syslog/messages about timeout resetting the socket.

The card doesn't show in lspci (and it never did in the old Slack
either).

I built & installed hostap and then rebooted... still doesn't detect.

So, I tested the sanity of my drivers - I put a REAL PCMCIA card into
the PCMCIA socket, a DeLink DWL-650 (non-Plus, rev 1A, old Prism2
aswell), it detects and hostap is loaded and then the OS tries to
configure it for my WAP... so by this I assuming my kernel's drivers
are sane and my card SHOULD do the same thing.

I'm just guessing I have a hotplug related problem, but I don't really
know where to go with this. Does someone have some advice? I'm at a
loss and getting rather frustrated! Help! Please! Googling hasn't
given me any insight, I didn't see anything in the archives for this
group, I tried #slackware and #wireless on Freenode...

Hoping for some direction,

Myke