Greetings,

I recently installed slackware 10 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop with PII 400Mhz, 128MB RAM and two pcmcia slots. I use a Xircom 10/100 and Linksys WPC11 v3 pcmcia adapter.

As long as I boot with the AC adapter plugged in both cards are detected and work fine.
When I boot on battery power, neither card works.
When I boot on AC power, then switch to battery power, then remove and insert a pcmcia card they also stop working. So obviously this problem is somehow related to working on battery power.
I can either boot the default vmlinuz or the kernel I compiled myself, but it makes no difference.
I have searched linuxquestions.org and google for a similar case, but cannot find anything.
Any help greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,

JJ

I forgot to mention that when the WPC11 card (this is the most important one as I rarely use the other one when working on battery power) is removed and re-inserted without AC power, I get a high beep and a low beep (= not normal). I also forgot to mention that the connection works fine again if I reconnect the AC adapter and then remove/insert the WPC11 card.
I do not know precisely what happens when I switch to battery power, but it clearly interferes with something.
Thanks in advance,

JJ

Well it would seem the problem has gone away:
I tried configuring /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf just like I did with /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and now the card is detected correctly when I boot on battery power and I can eject/insert the WPC11 card on the fly.
Don't know why that fixed the problem though, couldn't find anything in the apm or apmd documentation that explains it.

JJ