Re: PCMCIA / Kernel Bothers
Hi
I had similar problem with ThinkPad 600E and solved the problem by
changing PCIC in /etc/default/pcmcia to PCIC="yenta_socket".
Hope it helps.
Cheers
OZ
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 20:15, Alistair J Ross wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Just joined the list so please go easy on me!
>
> I've been working around a week so far on and off trying to sole the
> current problem I have, it is thus:
>
> I am running Debian Woody 2.4.18-bf24 (stock kernel which came with the
> distro). Needing the use of my Wireless card I set about installing a
> Kernel so that I can add in the orinoco patches to enable me to tell my
> wifi card I want to change channels. I downloaded 2.4.18-i686 sources
> from aptitude and went about installing the kernel. I'm pretty well
> versed in such actions so this isn't really a bother. However I've
> never really dabbled with PCMCIA before.
>
> Anyways, the short story is 2.4.18-bf24 works with PCMCIA fine, and
> 2.4.18-i1686 can't start up PCMCIA == it simply can't recognise the
> controller. The controller is on a Toshiba Portege 7000CT with a ToPiC
> 97 .
>
> I've read over all of the documentation at the pcmcia-cs web site and
> read over the particular woes that say that the Topic97 is bothersome,
> but it obviously works on the bf24 kernel, so why not on the new
> kernel.
>
> Here is a bit of debugging for you:
> skywalker kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
> skywalker kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
> skywalker kernel: Intel PCIC probe: not found.
> skywalker kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> (that's on the 2.4.18 -- not working kernel)
>
> This is the bf-24 kernel:
>
> kywalker kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
> skywalker kernel: kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST
> 2002
> skywalker kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
> skywalker kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
> skywalker kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0
> skywalker kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.1
> skywalker kernel: Toshiba ToPIC97 rev 05 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0b,
> mem 0x10000000
> skywalker kernel: host opts [0]: [slot 0xd0] [ccr 0x11] [cdr 0x86]
> [rcr 0x02] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 20/20]
> skywalker kernel: host opts [1]: [slot 0xd0] [ccr 0x21] [cdr 0x86]
> [rcr 0x02] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 21/21]
> skywalker kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,7,10,12,15 PCI status
> changes
> skywalker kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
> skywalker kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
> 0x170-0x177 0x220-0x22f 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f
> 0x4d0-0x4d7
>
> And so on...
>
> I've tried switching the bios to cardbus or pcic rather than auto,
> but no luck there either, I get PCMCIA to start on the 2.4.18 kernel
> but it just shows the cards in an un-working state.
>
> I also tried the lilo option pci=biosirq
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? I'd be very very grateful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alistair Ross
> -
> The glances over cocktails That seemed to be so sweet,
> Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat ;)
>
> Alistair J. Ross
> IT Consultancy, Internet & Open Source Specialist
> Tel: 0702 112 8458 / 0870 748 4346
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