I recently got a 3COM 3C589C (EtherLink III) PCMCIA card and decided to try it out in one of my A1200s (I've got three: One is towered with an X-Surf, one is a normal desktop and one is currently in pieces
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I downloaded 3c589.device, CardPatch and CardReset from Aminet and installed all that software according to instructions. I then turned the computer off, inserted the PCMCIA card and cold booted.
The green light on the NIC's dongle goes on, but neither Miami nor Prepcard can find the card. Prepcard just says "No card inserted" and Miami says "Device might be busy".
The card itself works fine in all the PCs I've tried it in (two different laptops).
Is my PCMCIA port broken? I could try the card in my other desktop A1200 but I'm afraid it's the card that broke the port - I have _NEVER_ used my PCMCIA port for anything before. Admittedly, my A1200 has taken a lot of beatings but as far as I understand the only _mechanical_ action on the PCMCIA port is when you insert the card, so it couldn't be wear and tear.
Aside from this the computer works perfectly. Dunno about the MoBo revision but it's 3.0 ROMs on which I've installed OS3.1 (came with my A1200T). I've currently got my Blizzard 1260 in this machine and it's fitted with 64MB of memory. I've also got a 3.5" hard drive. Could it perhaps be a power issue?
Any suggestions/ideas are most welcome. It would be nice to get online with a desktop A1200!
