PCMCIA MTD-0002 errors

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When a pcmcia device is inserted into the slot it is recognized as a mtd-0002
device. The new device found launches but is un able to load drivers. SP2 was
just loaded from a disk I just got from microsoft. Laptop is a Gateway
400sd4. I reloaded the mother board drivers from gateway, tried a different
pc card still the same results. PCMCIA.sys info is version 5.1.2600.2180 size
119,936 date 8-3-2004.
Seems to have the symptoms discussed in microsoft KB319326. Can someone help?
 
JBGJR said:
When a pcmcia device is inserted into the slot it is recognized as a mtd-0002
device. The new device found launches but is un able to load drivers. SP2 was
just loaded from a disk I just got from microsoft. Laptop is a Gateway
400sd4. I reloaded the mother board drivers from gateway, tried a different
pc card still the same results. PCMCIA.sys info is version 5.1.2600.2180 size
119,936 date 8-3-2004.
Seems to have the symptoms discussed in microsoft KB319326. Can someone help?
Click to expand...

Basically this means that pcmcia.sys can not read the attribute info
from the card and recognize it.
This can be for number of reasons.
Try another card, try this card in another machine.

--PA
 
I've done both. This card works fine in other machines and another card has
the same result in this machine.
 
JBGJR said:
I've done both. This card works fine in other machines and another card has
the same result in this machine.
Click to expand...

Then something is wrong with your machine.
Does your cardbus controller in the dev. manager appear by it's real name or
something "generic" ?
Are there by chance broken or bent pins in the pcmcia slot?

--PA
 
JBGJR said:
It's listed by it's real name
o2 micro card bus controller
Click to expand...

Sorry now I'm out of wits. Do any 32-bit Cardbus cards work on this machine?
If not, it can be an electrical problem, call Gateway support.

Regards,
--PA
 
I have the exact same problem with my PCMCIA Bus. It's not with the actual
PCMCIA device, but with the bus itself.

I have an HP Pavilion ze4500 Laptop with an O2Micro 6912 PCMCIA Bus. I
contacted HP about the issue and the sent me a link for a patch and a BIOS
update, but neither resolved the issue. The PCMCIA device I am trying to run
is a Netgear WG511T Wireless Adapter. I also have a PCMCIA USB2.0/Firewire
adapter which only the Firewire works correctly. USB 1.1 device work, but
USB 2.0 doesn't work correctly. I have a PCMCIA AverTV device that functions
correctly.

If I eject the Wireless card and re-insert it, it recognizes it and starts
the device and it works normally until I restart my computer. Then it is
recognized as a MTD-0002 and no driver will work to initialize the device.

O2Micro supposedly fixed this issue with a driver that they created and sent
to certain people, but I haven't been able to find it. I have wondered if
the latest PCMCIA.SYS driver published by Microsoft would have fixed this
issue, but they don't provide it anywhere on their site. It was supposed to
be included with Service Pack 2, but it's not there. Version 5.1.2600.2180
is what is in SP2. Version 5.1.2600.34 is supposed to be the new one.
Whether or not, it fixes the issue, is to be seen, but my research shows that
this is a bug in the Microsoft Driver.

Oddly enough, if I run a Linux OS, I don't have this issue. I don't know
yet if this is an issue with Windows Vista, but I will find out as soon a my
memory upgrade arrives.

For now, if anyone knows where I can download the new driver to test it,
please send me a message. Or if Microsoft will fix their bugs, that would be
great too. ;)
 
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