Seems to me you might be having some problems with the pcmcia functions. The machine should show something in the logs when the card is poped in or out. Untill that works Alsa can not talk to the card. Jaakko Prättälä wrote: >I see nothing. I can pull and push the card as I like >and... nothing. >____ >While at it, I took a look at the kernel startup (selected messages): >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services: >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti pcmcia: modules >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti pcmcia: cardmgr. >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti cardmgr[547]: starting, version is 3.1.31 >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti cardmgr[547]: config error, file 'config' line >1059: syntax error >Mar 25 08:56:43 kiertotahti cardmgr[547]: config error, file 'config' line >2135: no function bindings >Mar 25 08:56:44 kiertotahti cardmgr[547]: watching 1 sockets >Mar 25 08:56:44 kiertotahti cardmgr[547]: Card Services release does not match > > >