Bug#290997: pcmcia-cs: cardmgr doesn't recognize new PCMCIA card

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:41:14PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> Il giorno sab, 29/11/2008 alle 01.08 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff ha
> scritto:
> ... 
> > > When I insert my PCMCIA SCSI card nothing happens. If I issue
> > > 'cardctl insert' command, then I hear only one beep.
> > 
> > Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?
> 
> today I upgraded that machine to lenny. pcmcia-cs is now an empty
> package, but I have pcmciautils 014-4 installed.
> 
> When I insert my card on the powerpc machine (now with kernel version
> 2.6.26+17), nothing happens. No audio singals, no new lines
> on /var/log/syslog.
> 
> eppesuig3:~# pccardctl ident
> Socket 0:
>   no product info available
> eppesuig3:~# pccardctl status
> Socket 0:
>   no card
> eppesuig3:~# pccardctl reset
> eppesuig3:~# pccardctl status
> Socket 0:
>   no card
> 
> So, the card is not recognized, but since pccardctl display one socket,
> then I must think the socket is recognized.
> 
> When I insert the same card on x86 machine (same software versions), I
> get this:
> 
> scarafaggio:~# pccardctl  status
> Socket 0:
>   5.0V 16-bit PC Card
>   Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "sym53c500_cs"
> scarafaggio:~# pccardctl  ident
> Socket 0:
>   product info: "New Media Corporation", "SCSI Bus Toaster Sym53C500",
> "53C500-MHz40.", ""
>   manfid: 0x0057, 0x0022
>   function: 8 (SCSI)
> 
> Please note that kernel module sym53c500_cs is present even on powerpc:
> 
> eppesuig3:~# find /lib/modules/ -name \*sym53c5\*
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/sym53c500_cs.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/sym53c500_cs.ko
> eppesuig3:~# uname -a
> Linux eppesuig3 2.6.26-1-powerpc #1 Sat Jan 10 14:00:38 CET 2009 ppc
> GNU/Linux

Sorry for the late response. There have been no sym53c500_cs specific
changes to the driver since 2.6.26, so the error very likely still
exists upstream, since there are no Debian-related patches.

Could you please file this upstream at http://bugzilla.kernel.org
and send the bugnumber to this bug log?

Cheers,
        Moritz