AST Ascentia 800N PCMCIA Problems

[Travis Poppe]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:47:35 -0700 (MST)
Les Biffle <les at ns3.safety.net> wrote:

> > I've recently acquired an AST Ascentia 800N Notebook computer.
> 
> I have a wonderful 800N, and the PCMCIA facility is really bad.  Even
> under (ahem) Windows, it will lock up when a CF card is inserted.  I
> have had good luck with the 3COM 589 ethernets, but nothing else.  I
> don't think you'll have much luck with this machine.

I recently tried using 4.10-RELEASE instead of 5.2.1-RELEASE. Detected
the card on boot and everything. Now all I have to do is get it to work
properly :-)

-Travis Poppe