Bug#270376: PCMCIA Nic stops working after upgrading to 2.6.6/7/8
Thanks for the response.
maximilian attems - Let me know when the kernel is built and I'll go ahead
and try that.
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Thanks
Jefferson Cowart
Jeff@cowart.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maximilian attems [mailto:debian@sternwelten.at]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 16:26
> To: Daniel Ritz
> Cc: Jefferson Cowart; 'Dominik Brodowski';
> 270376@bugs.debian.org; linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#270376: PCMCIA Nic stops working after
> upgrading to 2.6.6/7/8
>
> On Thu, 07 Apr 2005, Daniel Ritz wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:56, Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> > > Sorry for the delay in sending this. I ended up getting
> back later than
> > > expected. In any case the hexdumps are below. Please let
> me know if you need
> > > anything else.
> >
> > also sorry for the delay :)
> >
> > >
> > > Under 2.6.5-bk1
> > > ===============
> > > (/proc/bus/pci/00/07.0)
> > > 0000000 104c ac17 0007 0210 0002 0607 a820 0082
> > > 0000010 8000 000c 00a0 0200 0100 b004 0000 1000
> > > 0000020 f000 103f 0000 1040 f000 107f 4400 0000
> > > 0000030 44fc 0000 4800 0000 48fc 0000 010a 0540
> > > 0000040 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > > 0000050 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > > *
> > > 0000080 7020 2800 0000 0000 0000 0000 3822 0ba4
> >
> > ^
> > there you go. the intrtie bit is set. this means that both functions
> > use INTA to signal the interrupts. but the BIOS is broken
> and assigned
> > a different irq to function 1 compared to function 0.
> > so the reason it broke when the irq-routing patch was merged is that
> > irqs are actually probed to see if they work or if the routing needs
> > some tuning...
> >
> > the attached patch should fix it. it's untested 'cos i don't have a
> > laptop with TI bridge anymore...but it's simple
> >
> > rgds
> > -daniel
>
> thanks a lot for your explenations and the provided patch.
> i need some sleep right now, but i'll build a kernel
> tommorow for jefferson - bug reporter - to test.
>
> a++ maks
>
>
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