Im currently using a Samsung VM6000 series laptop running XP service pack 2 and the PC card slots do not work with XP. Im trying to use a Netgear WG511T card and everytime i plug it in an error message comes up saying: "The device "Ricoh R/RL/RB/5C478(II), R5C522 or Compatible CardBus Controller" has detected a Cardbus card in its slot, but the firmware on this system is not configured to allow the Cardbus controller to be run in CardBus mode. The operating system will c..." The message continues but i cant read any further because it is not displayed.

No lights display on the card either when i insert it.

The card does work because I upgraded the OS from Windows 98SE, where the card did work, to XP so I could use a piece of software called Slickr.

The name of the card slots: Ricoh R/RL/RB/5C478(II), R5C522. Under Device Manager the card's driver is: 5.1.2600.0
Other info:
300Mhz Intel Mobile Celeron
Intel 440DX PCI chipset
The manual refers to the PC Cards as:
"Controller: Texas Instruments PCI 1220 CardBus Controller
Types Supported: 2 Type II or 1 Type III cards.
Connector Size: 68 pins
Data Width: 16-bit PCMCIA cards, 32-bit CardBus cards
Supports: Zoomed video and 32-bit Card Bus cards"
ATI Rage LT Pro Controller 4MB 100Mhz SGRAM

Any help would be much appreciated.

Your computer was not meant to run xp. Try going back to 98 or even win ME. 256mb ram and a celeron 66 FSB on xp sp2 is awful and very slow. It would not be worth the hassle. If you really want this as is you can always get a LPT to ethernet adapter to get online. Once you start loading programs on this your system will come to a crawl.

so there is no hope for the cardbus thing. i only intend to use one program (slickr) but if i cant use wireless then i suppose i could find a ethernet adaptor like you said. thanks

I would say that you should be able to load the OEM drivers for the pci-pci bus that Win98 had and it may work.

See the system hardware page for more info. Might even have to change some IRQ or other bios settings.

Most likely a driver for your old system was left out of XP.

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

Umm i dont know what you mean by the IRQ thing, i dont mind that much if it dont work. To be honest I would just like a straight yes or no will it work.

Not a binary world.

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10