MW-520 & USB??

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MW-520 & USB??

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I have a MW-520.. am trying to add a USB PCMCIA card.. has anyone had any luck adding a USB port to the 520?

When I try to install, Get a message saying to enable USB controller in BIOS.
Can't find it in the BIOS.
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I have somewhat of the same problem with my PCMCIA slots. I have a MW-520 (model: FLN 5203A) and I tried to install another Motorola product a PCMCIA Wifi card 802.11b, Model number go figure "MN-520", small world. I can't get it to power up, and recognize, glorious M and there cruel evil shenanigans.
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What F502X MW520 do you have that your trying to do the pcmcia USB. What is the bios version in it?

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F5201B bios vers: NoteBios 4.0
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Hhhmmm, I have a bios (both color and mono) for the F5201C and it is version 5. something. Wonder if that would work or kill yours.

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Mine is color & Touch.... I have a "few" extras to play with..
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it's definately a bios upgrade problem. go to motorola's website and see if they still offer support for that to flash the bios chip. and the reason the the 802.11 card don't work is probablly if you read the box and the system requirements, the processor isn't fast enuf for the card.
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Post by mr.syntrx »

It's definitely not a matter of CPU speed. Wireless cards don't occupy much CPU time at all.

I'm not familiar with the MW-520, but I'll take a guess and say it has 16-bit, 5V only PCMCIA slots. Newer laptops use the 32-bit, 3.3V CardBus standard, but are also backwards compatible with 16-bit cards. Check the back of the wifi card to see what type it is.
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MyoungARC wrote:I have somewhat of the same problem with my PCMCIA slots. I have a MW-520 (model: FLN 5203A) and I tried to install another Motorola product a PCMCIA Wifi card 802.11b, Model number go figure "MN-520", small world. I can't get it to power up, and recognize, glorious M and there cruel evil shenanigans.
I have no problem with mine..it sees the card..

Did you load the drivers first??
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Kyote did you try the bios update?

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Having a problem getting the PCMCIA card to boot...
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There is a way to format it as bootable but I don't recall the details off hand.

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My problem is that I can't even get the card to power up, the power light never comes on. It works fine thou in my laptop. I found this problem, after I downloaded the drivers and it was ready for the card to be inserted, I put the card in and nothing, nothing happened. The computer says that both PCMCIA slots are working properly.
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