Brendan Hughes

1997 Tosh Satellite 110CT, running Win98, won't recognise the brand new D-Link DUB-C2 card that I bought for it (to give me a couple of USB ports).

Win98 has the driver already, plus I installed the driver anyway. Yet it still thinks the slot is empty.

There are two slots, both of which have worked before (modem, network card), and I even tested one by swapping the network card around - sure enough, auto-recognition as soon as you plug it in. Yet plugging in the new D-Link card gives nothing, not a peep. Ask to find new hardware manually - zero.

Anyone got any suggestions? I don't have another laptop to test the card in, and am a bit loathe to take the card back to the shop if I'm not sure it's duff. I only have two suggestions; 1 is that the card is the wrong type (it says it's for Type II slots, not sure what type mine is), and the other is that son forced the card in the first time so something might be damaged, but I'd be very surprised about that. It looks OK physically.

Thanks

JoeyDeacon

It doesn't work for the reason I stated when you originally asked about this.

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=388590

class_A

That card is Cardbus (32-bit) not PCMCIA (16-bit). Physically similar but not forwards compatible (ie. a 32-bit card will not be recognised in a 16-bit slot). If it's Cardbus it will have a set of raised "dimples" on the top face of the card around the connector area.


(Image from http://www.lindy.com/it/tips/uk/PCMC...CIA_keying.jpg)

Brendan Hughes

Oh ****.

JD, I never saw your first reply - wish I had done as it was very clear

Gotta see if I can take it back now.