Sunix adapter not working with E620

jb007za said:
My motherboard is a BIOSTAR TForce 6100-939 with an NVidia chipset.
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Your board [http://www.biostar.com.tw/t-series/products/socket 939/tforce6100-939/product_details.php] has the GeForce 6100 and NForce 410 chips.

My board [http://za.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=0&model=1138&modelmenu=1] has the GeForce 6150 and NForce 430 chips, just newer revisions of your chips.

On the tech support page [http://www.frontosa.co.za/support.htm] of Frontosa (a local hardware distributor) they say: "Asus A8N-VM does not function with Sunix".

The specs of this board [http://za.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=0&model=768&modelmenu=1] show it uses the same chips as your board, GeForce 6100 and NForce 410.

It may be an incompatibility with the hardware, but to rule this out I would suggest installing a fresh copy of Windows to another hard-drive, or another partition and see if the card works there. You may just have something screwy with Windows, as MTNDD decribes in a previous post:

MTN_Data_Dude said:
with failures we’ve had to re-image the machines once we’ve done that it worked fine
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Hi

Oops, my mistake. I'm actually running a AMD Athlon 64 (not XP) with BIOSTAR TForce 6100-939 motherboard. Sorry about that.

J
 
Interestingly, another PC-to-PCMCIA card had the same problem in my machine so I imagine that it is the existing hardware to blame. Hope it's a software setting... will looking into your suggestions ginggs. Many thanks!!!
 
jb007za said:
Interestingly, another PC-to-PCMCIA card had the same problem in my machine so I imagine that it is the existing hardware to blame. Hope it's a software setting... will looking into your suggestions ginggs. Many thanks!!!
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Oops, what a contradiction on my behalf... I meant to say that the hardware configuration on my machine may necessitate the latest Windows updates or even extra settings of some sort.
 
I had the exact same problem using a Sunix with the Ricoh chip pc-to-pci card on a motherboard with a NVidia chipset and an AMD Septron processor.

After installing the Vodafone software as instructed in the manual, I've rebooted the PC and inserted the PCMCIA card into the slot expecting that it was going to work, but it didn't.

I got that little speech bubble saying new hardware found "NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller" and then I got a message that said something like "an error occurred while installing your hardware. It may not work."

Okay fine, so off to device manager I go, there I saw 2 entries for "NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller" under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" with those little question marks.

Okay fine so maybe the drivers were not detected correctly so clicked on update driver and pointed it to the INF files on the Vodafone driver cd. Ok cool, it detected the updated drivers and the "NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller" entries now changed to "Fusion UMTS GPRS" but still not working and still with those two yellow question marks :mad:

The next few hours I was busy re-installing drivers and windows and so on....starting to get really pissed off. I could not get that 3G card to work.

Ok, finally I decided to boot from a live Ubuntu dapper cd, and tried the 3G card on there...Guess what, it worked first time, without any problems or extra drivers. Unfortunately the customer I'm putting this PC together for uses Windows XP (shame)

Although this did give me some hope that it was not a hardware but a software problem. After hours of going through forums (this is where I saw this thread) and allot of google I decided to give up.

Knowing that jb007za and JD1971 both have the same problems as I'm having also with AMD processor and NVidia chipset, I decided to order another motherboard and processor this time a Gigabyte motherboard with a Pentium 4 processor.

I installed the new motherboard and processor with the same Sunix card, and guess what .... it worked first time.

damn MS Windows :(
 
dade said:
I had the exact same problem using a Sunix with the Ricoh chip pc-to-pci card on a motherboard with a NVidia chipset and an AMD Septron processor.

After installing the Vodafone software as instructed in the manual, I've rebooted the PC and inserted the PCMCIA card into the slot expecting that it was going to work, but it didn't.

I got that little speech bubble saying new hardware found "NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller" and then I got a message that said something like "an error occurred while installing your hardware. It may not work."

Okay fine, so off to device manager I go, there I saw 2 entries for "NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller" under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" with those little question marks.

Okay fine so maybe the drivers were not detected correctly so clicked on update driver and pointed it to the INF files on the Vodafone driver cd. Ok cool, it detected the updated drivers and the "NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller" entries now changed to "Fusion UMTS GPRS" but still not working and still with those two yellow question marks :mad:

The next few hours I was busy re-installing drivers and windows and so on....starting to get really pissed off. I could not get that 3G card to work.

Ok, finally I decided to boot from a live Ubuntu dapper cd, and tried the 3G card on there...Guess what, it worked first time, without any problems or extra drivers. Unfortunately the customer I'm putting this PC together for uses Windows XP (shame)

Although this did give me some hope that it was not a hardware but a software problem. After hours of going through forums (this is where I saw this thread) and allot of google I decided to give up.

Knowing that jb007za and JD1971 both have the same problems as I'm having also with AMD processor and NVidia chipset, I decided to order another motherboard and processor this time a Gigabyte motherboard with a Pentium 4 processor.

I installed the new motherboard and processor with the same Sunix card, and guess what .... it worked first time.

damn MS Windows :(
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I've escalated this to my device manager and Huawei to investigate further and will advise if they have any feedback regarding the above.

Thanks MTNDD
 
dade said:
Ok, finally I decided to boot from a live Ubuntu dapper cd, and tried the 3G card on there...Guess what, it worked first time, without any problems or extra drivers. Unfortunately the customer I'm putting this PC together for uses Windows XP (shame)

Although this did give me some hope that it was not a hardware but a software problem.
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Must be software if the card works on the same hardware on a different OS.

I always install the nvidia chipset drivers from here:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Anyone struggling with the Ricoh chipset PCMCIA card (Sunix, Mustek, etc) and Nvidia chipset motherboard, try updating your Nvidia chipset drivers and give us some feedback please.
 
ginggs said:
Must be software if the card works on the same hardware on a different OS.

I always install the nvidia chipset drivers from here:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Anyone struggling with the Ricoh chipset PCMCIA card (Sunix, Mustek, etc) and Nvidia chipset motherboard, try updating your Nvidia chipset drivers and give us some feedback please.
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Well it seems like a windows config error as well as it works on Linux but has issues on Windows

MTNDD
 
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