Hi, I hope this a good place for a technical question. I am an
administrator at a small business, and trying to figure out why we have
several laptops with unusable PCCard ports. We own two Sprint air cards
that are available to employees on request: a Sierra Wireless AC595 and
a Pantech PC-500. The Sierra recently stopped working, but it's more a
plug-and-play issue than a radio issue. It's not recognized by the
laptops anymore, and appears as a PCMCIA MTD-0002 instead. In trying to
solve the problem, I've noticed the laptops are not accepting the
Pantech either, creating the same error. A WiFi router that doesn't
take the Sierra's form factor still works fine with the Pantech, so I
know it's good.
Just today I saw something I hadn't noticed before. In the lower-right
corner of the Sierra (looking straight-on at the female edge), the
plastic appears worn away between what I believe are pins 35 and 36, a
ground and "card detect 1". Now I'm technically inclined, but am no
engineer... Is it feasible that could have caused a *short* in the
PCCard ports of any laptop that's recently tried the Sierra, thereby
causing all other cards to fail? Is there any easy method for testing
the PCCard port pinouts?
We are working through the issue with Dell, and there are still
zillions of things to try, but I wanted to get some feedback on my
current sinking feeling... Any thoughts? Thanks!
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