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
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