Re: doubt??

[franzi <net04043@cr-surfing.net>]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:47:54AM -0800, Pietro Calogero wrote:
> Dear Franzi,
> To begin with, I hope that people who understand Debian are reading this 
> and will contribute their input, because I really am a newbie.  This is 
> a case of the blind-leading-the-blind; but then again no-one on this 
> list hepled me either when I was trying to resolve a problem which seems 
> similar to yours.
> 
> franzi wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:32:10PM -0800, Pietro Calogero wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Dear Franzi,
> >>Yes, the driver does work with kernel 2.2.20.
> >>Edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and add a line like:
> >>
> >>include port 0x1000-0x1fff
> >>   
> >>
> >Done it but nothing happend.
> >
> I am not sure that the fix for mine will be the same as the fix for 
> yours.  Did you run dmesg to find out whether the 3com driver is 
> running?  Below is an abridged version of the dmesg output from my 
> machine before the fix:
> Linux version 2.2.20-idepci (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 
> Sat Apr
> 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
Thanks very much for write me back hereby i send you my dmesg
Linux version 2.2.20-idepci (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0009f000 @ 00000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 03f00000 @ 00100000 (usable)
Detected 166638 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 332.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62988k/65536k available (1164k kernel code, 412k reserved, 900k data, 72k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Assigning I/O space 5800-583f to device 00:60
PCI: Assigning I/O space 5840-585f to device 00:60
PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:60
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ALI15X3: simplex device:  DMA disabled
ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
ALI15X3: simplex device:  DMA disabled
ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: HITACHI_DK227A-41, 3909MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=993/128/63
hdc: ATAPI 10X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...
via-rhine.c:v1.08b-LK1.0.1 12/14/2000  Written by Donald Becker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0f (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled on user request.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 124988k swap-space (priority -1)
nbd: registered device at major 43
NTFS version 000607
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Network Kernel/User communications module 0.04
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.3
  kernel build: 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfb400
  00:05.0 -> irq 9
  00:05.1 -> irq 9
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading PCMCIA Card Services
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.3
  kernel build: 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfb400
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
  TI 1250A rev 02 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:05, mem 0x68000000
    host opts [0]: [ring] [isa irq] [pci irq 9] [lat 32/176] [bus 32/34]
    host opts [1]: [ring] [isa irq] [pci irq 9] [lat 32/176] [bus 35/37]
    PCI irq 9 test failed
    ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,10,11 status change on irq 11
cs: cb_alloc(bus 35): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x0000
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
If i do lsmod i don't see any 3c59x.c loaded even if i modprobe
/lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/pcmcia 3c575_cb
i don't have any positive result
thanks very much for helping me