ti pci4410 CardBusdriver incompatible?
Dear All,
I am probably boring everyone to death with my problem... but hang in plzzz
Short: when i insert a PC Card in my PCMCIA drive, the computer crashes.
Facts:
- Dell 5100 Inspiron (2,4 Mhz; about a year old. All firmware updates installed)
- Windows XP Home (all the updates installed)
- PC Card: Tornado 211G 802.11G (same problems reported with D-Link, Netgeat, Belkin, et cetera)
When is de-activate the CardBus controller drive, i can insert the PC Card. But as soon as the driver is activated again, the laptop crashes.
I tried to install the drivers for the PC Card first: no luck.
I don't want to jump into conclusions, but there seems to be a problem with the CardBus Drive driver. The CardBus drive is a Texas Instruments PCI-4410.
There are no new drivers (5.1.2600.0, dated 1-7-2001, digitaly signed MS))
Surfing the internet, i found a lot of victims (the Compaq Evo 1020N has the same problems... and the same CardBus drive).
On the microsoft support site, i found:
( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295629 )
CAUSE
On an ACPI-enabled computer that uses certain Texas Instruments CardBus controllers, inserting a CardBus card that does not support power management can result in a continuously asserted Power Management event (PME) being signal by the controller. This causes the card to be continuously re-enumerated.
But this article is about ME en 98... not XP...
Dell doesn't want to help me, i cannot go to Micro$oft for support (OEM Dell...) the shop where i bought the PC Card (Beat It: NEVER buy there...) doesn't want to take the stuff back. Tornado, manufacturer of the PC Card, is looking for a sollution too. (i keep THEM posted :-) )
So... anyone?
Anyone find a solution for the ti 4410 ?
My girlfriend has a compaq Presario 1500 that we upgraded to XP pro FROM XP Home edition that came pre-installed. We had a Microsoft Networking PCMCIA card that worked fine in it. After the upgrade the computer freezes any time I put either the Microsoft card, or a SMC card for Wireless G. I have a generic Blittz (crappy reception) wireless b card that works Ok. I have updated the bios, made the recommended bios changes, downloaded all the enhancements and drivers from compaq, called microsoft tech support, smc tech support, and compaq tech support. Still cant get the dang thing to work !!!!!!! If anyone has a way to make either the MS or SMC card work it would be greatly appreciated. Thanx!!
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