Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues
sageFool wrote:
Hi, so I compiled the kernel with the PCMCIA/CARDBUS support turned on.
WHen I run ./test_setup I get:
debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# ./test_setup
Current kernel: 2.4.17 #6 Tue Feb 19 07:50:28 PST 2002
/lib/modules/2.4.17/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o not found.
The PCMCIA modules are not installed for this kernel!
...
Module status:
No PCMCIA modules are loaded.
which looks bad. Maybe it's not necessary if you compiled right into the
kernel, but here's my config settings for PCMCIA.
# PCMCIA/CardBus support
CONFIG_PCMCIA=m
# PCMCIA network device support
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PCNET=m
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_IBMTR is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA_RADIO=y
# PCMCIA character devices
CONFIG_PCMCIA_SERIAL_CS=m
Obviously some of your modules may be different.
In your message to me, you mention
> It doesn't mention yenta because I have kernel PCMCIA turned off. You
> need to turn it on and change the /etc/defaults/pcmcia PCIC to be
> yenta to get that.
Now, I'm not really clear on PCIC & Yenta, because I never found
anything in the docs, but I had it set to i82365 in kernel 2.2.x and it
still worked after going to 2.4.x, so I've left it there (even when a
pcmcia-cs upgrade tried to remove it). i82365 won't load, and I get an
error, but everything still works.
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian cardmgr[4880]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian cardmgr[4880]: watching 2 sockets
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian cardmgr[4880]: Card Services release does not match
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
That's all normal.
Feb 19 10:20:05 debian cardmgr[4880]: socket 0: Anonymous Memory
Feb 19 10:20:06 debian cardmgr[4880]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
Feb 19 10:20:06 debian cardmgr[4880]: + modprobe: Can't locate module memory_cs
This seems to be a problem with your card - it's not reporting anything.
So your system is guessing that it's a memory card.
cardctl gives:
debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# cardctl status
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready], [wp]
Socket 1:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready], [wp]
debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available
debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools# cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 5.0V Vpp2 5.0V
Socket 1:
Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 5.0V Vpp2 5.0V
debian:/usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/debug-tools#
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My dmesg still reports:
...
Yenta IRQ list 0c98, PCI irq9
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0c98, PCI irq9
Socket status: 30000006
I get:
Yenta IRQ list 08b8, PCI irq9
Socket status: 30000410
Yenta IRQ list 08b8, PCI irq9
Socket status: 30000006
Maybe somebody else could explain whether the same machine should be
reporting this the same or not - I would have thought so.
If this horrendous ODBC export I'm doing from a Windows/Access system
onto my Linux/Oracle ever gets done, I intend to try playing with some
of this. But it's been 24 hours to unload a few hundred thousand
records and I'm not risking it now :-)
--
derek
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