PCMCIA Modem card not recognised

Question

My Latitude Cpi-A hard drive died and I had to buy a new 10GB one.

Yesterday I installed win98SE on it and tried to get it to recognize my Cirrus logic 56K PC modem.

Two "Texas Instruments PCI-1225 CardBus Controller" are listed in device manager under PCMCIA.

In Control Panel, when I attempt to install my modem, an interface asks me if I want to install a PCMCIA modem card or ‘other". When I select PCMCIA, I am told to put my PC card in. After it’s inserted, the interface simply hangs there saying: "Insert PCMCIA modem card now." The "next" button never comes on so I can't click it. It will not recognize the PC card. I can’t go any further.

So I installed the driver for my PC card on my own and I while it is listed in my Device Manager, I cannot get a response from the modem.

I downloaded Diskmaker but I keep getting this message whenever it starts: "The image directory file is missing or invalid. DISKLIBW program will abort."

I’m pretty frustrated here.

How can I get my PC card up and working? With the dead hard drive I had WinXP which automatically recognized the card. I can’t install XP this time but I have a good Win98SE CD so that’s what I have to use.

Please help.

Ed C · Answer

Check the Dell support site for updated drivers for the PCMCIA slot. They might not be included with the OS.

cashcomm · Answer

Maybe I wasn't clear the frst time.

I went to the Dell downloads and drivers page and got the "DiskMaker" Utility file. But it is corrupted and unusable.

I downloaded it TWICE on different computers and I get the same error message about the image directory each time.

Please advise.

Once again, I cannot get my Dell Latitude CPi-A Win98SE to recognise my Cirrus logic 56K PC card modem.

Not in slot one or two. The PCMCIA interface has these options where I am supposed to be able to "stop" a socket by clicking on it but the stop button never activates.

When I try to install the pc modem the next button never activates after I insert the card.

????

Also when I take the pc card out of slot 2 the computer beeps so it is recognised by the hardware but not by the drivers. Where can I download a non-corrupted version of DiskMaker?

Message Edited by cashcomm on 08-09-2005 07:43 PM

I just installed OS update from the downloads page. No difference.

I go to Control panel > PC Card (PCMCIA) interface and both sockets are listed as "Empty" when in fact socket one has the pc card in it right now.

So how do I get the computer to recognise the pc card?

Message Edited by cashcomm on 08-09-2005 08:41 PM

tech19 · Answer

instead of reinstalling diskmaker go under chipset drivers and reinstall the texas instrument for pcmcia cards and see if that helps but first go into safe mode at boot up and uninstall the texas instrument from device manager

cashcomm · Answer

Thank you fo your reply tech19 I gather you are telling me to do two things:   1) boot to safemode, go into Device manager and remove  the two Texas Instruments PCI 1225 CardBus Controllers I did this with ease. But the second instruction is to much for my newbieness.   2)...go under chipset drivers and reinstall the texas instrument for pcmcia cards...'   First how do I go under chipset drivers and where do I find it?   Once there what do I click to reinstall the controllers?   Looking forward to solving this problem,   Thanks much :smileyvery-happy: Message Edited by cashcomm on 08-10-2005 05:52 PM

tech19 · Answer

support.dell.com then click on home and home office once the next page comes up then please click on downloads and drivers enter the service tag on the system you are having trouble with then click the blue circle with the white arrow it will then take you to a driver page asking for windows o.s. and what language select the operating system and click find downloads then go under chipset drivers and choose texas instrument and download the file to your desktop then run the file from your desktop it may be texas instrument or o2 micro

cashcomm · Answer

I went to the Win98 download page here: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=LAT_PNT_MOB_CPI_A&os=W98&osl=EN   There was no chipset download link that I could see.

tech19 · Answer

try a different system with windows xp so you can install the texas instrument for your system i checked my training site and it is suppose to be for the pcmcia card slot the Texas Instruments PCI 6515 Cardbus http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=LATITUDE%20D810&os=WW1&osl=EN try the driver here

cashcomm · Answer

I just performed a diagnostic test with Diagnostic 4.02A03 file on a floppy.

I did a full test.

PCMCIA Test - PCMCIA : Pass
PCMCIA Power - Not Active.

Could this be the reason my pc modem card is not being recognised?

What can I do to activate PCMCIA power?

Message Edited by cashcomm on 08-14-2005 01:50 PM

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