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Re: IBM Tokenring problems on Dell Inspiron 8000



Matthias Weiss <matthias.we@gmx.at> writes:
Hi,

> Hallo! 
> 
> I'm struggling to get this IBM Turbo 16/4 PCMCIA card to work on a 2.4.5
> kernel. I'm using debian unstable and the pcmcia-cs 3.1.26 package. 
> 
> Strangely I get the card running with the default kernel 2.2.19pre17 of the
> distro. 
> 
> When I start the token ring card under 2.4.5 with "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start"
> I get 
> 
>                   ibmtr_cs:MapMemPage: Bad offset 
> 
> When I use the kernel pcmcia support I get a kernel panic something
> complaining about an killing interupt handler. 
> 
> When I compile pcmcia-cs package by hand and add PnP BIOS resource checking
> I get the Bad offset thing. 
> 
> My /etc/pcmcia/config.opts entries: 
>                   ############################################# 
>                   include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff 
>                   include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff 
>                   include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff, memory
> 0x60000000-0x60ffffff 
>                   include port 0xa00-0xaff 
>                   exclude irg 4 
>                   exclude irq 7 
>                   module "ibmtr_cs" opts "mmiobase=0xd4000 srambase=0xd8000
> ringspeed=16 sramsize=16 irq_list=9" 
>                   ############################################ 
> 
> I already tried to remove the whole module line, change values of the
> mmiobase and srambase entries and remove them, set irq_list to different
> values but no success, always the same output except when I hit an already
> used IRQ. 

you need from the linux-tokenring WEB-page, patch for Kernel 2.4.x. I have
it on all my machines with IBM TR ( Olympic, Tropic and LANStreamer, PCI
and PCMCIA ).

Sorry for my englich. It's not my native language :)

Pozdrawiam/Gruß/Regards
Robert Rakowicz
-- 
Robert Rakowicz
E-Mail:	Robert.Rakowicz@rjap.de
URL:	www.rjap.de



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