Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (194 mails)

[David <spotslayer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Matt and Pascal! Thanks for the info. I won't have much time 
to work with my laptop much until thiss weekend, but will read this 
stuff and give it a go then. I guess if I can't get it going then, 
there's always hammers.

David

patheve2 wrote:

> Hello David
>
> Welcome in the team of the people who have some problems with PCMCIA 
> and Linux 64 bits :-)) !!!!
> Well, as Matt wrote it, you can find in this mailing list some 
> informations that can help you, in particular
> my two messages :
> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/0204.html
> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/0205.html
> in which there are a solution. But I can explain how I could get my 
> cards working fine after several tests
> with the help of Matt and David Hinds the "father" of the PCMCIA kit 
> for linux.
>
> So my laptop : an Asus of the L5D series, the first one of Asus with 
> Athlon 64. It is built with nVidia
> chipsets. On it : Win XP Pro SP2, SuSE AMD64 9.0 (kernel 2.4.21) and 
> SuSE AMD64 9.1 with kernel
> (a 2.6.8-24.10 one) and PCMCIA package of the SuSE AMD64 9.2.
> My cards are a Com One modem card (Platinium 56k), a Netgear ethernet 
> FA411 card and a Hayes modem
> card (Optima 288).
>
> Accordind to "lspci -vv", hereafter the data about the PCMCIA port of 
> my laptop:
>
> 0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab)
>       Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1854
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 168
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
>       Region 0: Memory at fd200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>       Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
>       Memory window 0: fba00000-fc5ff000 (prefetchable)
>       Memory window 1: fc600000-fd1ff000
>       I/O window 0: 0000c000-0000c7ff
>       I/O window 1: 0000c800-0000cfff
>       BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- 
> PostWrite+
>       16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
>
> 0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab)
>       Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1854
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 168
>       Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 0: Memory at fa200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>       Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
>       Memory window 0: f8a00000-f95ff000 (prefetchable)
>       Memory window 1: f9600000-fa1ff000
>       I/O window 0: 0000b000-0000b7ff
>       I/O window 1: 0000b800-0000bfff
>       BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ 
> PostWrite+
>       16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
>
> So with a full SuSE 9.2 (9.3 ?) AMD64, the basis is correct : kernel 
> and PCMCIA package. At first, verify that your card
> is defined in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. If not, go to the next 
> step, we will see after.
> Now, have a look on I/O windows and memory window above. These datas 
> are required in the config.opts file in
> the /etc/pcmcia directory under this form :
>
> # range of port addresses :
> #####################
> include port 0xb000-0xb7ff
> include port 0xb800-0xbfff
> include port 0xc000-0xc7ff
> include port 0xc800-0xcfff
> # range of memory addresses :
> ########################
> include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000
>
> I have to take the min and max of the memory for defining one range 
> and take all the ranges of port.
>
> Copy the original config.opts and rename it, modify the config.opts by 
> suppressing all datas concerning port and memory
> and add your own datas. Reboot your PC. Insert a card and see the 
> results with "dmesg" and tell us what you get. I think
> you can see at this level an improvement . No ?? Then with 
> "/sbin/cardctl info",  see the character strings after "PRODID_1"
> and "PRODID_2". With this, make an entry in the /etc/pcmcia/config 
> file. If you don't know how to do, tell it us. If an
> entry is already defined, forget this step. Go to the following. Now, 
> see what give /sbin/lsmod. Are there some
> loaded modules such as "pcmcia_core", "yenta_socket", "ds" and the 
> module  depending on the type of PCMCIA card
> (for example : serial_cs if modem) ?
> If wrong, don't worry, try this :  with /sbin/lspci -vv, find the 
> datas about PCI bridge with secondary=02. In my cas, here
> what I get :
>
> 0000:00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev 
> a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR+ <PERR-
>       Latency: 0
>       Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=128
>       I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000dfff
>       Memory behind bridge: f8a00000-feafffff
>       Expansion ROM at 0000b000 [disabled] [size=12K]
>       BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
>
> Take the min and max of the memory behind brigde and put them in the 
> config.opts file. Reboot your PC and see the
> results. Verify all the above steps after boot. Better or not ? If 
> not, I thing that the solution should only come from ....
> Windows XP !!!  Sorry. But if you have Windows on dual boot. This is 
> the first time that Win XP can help Linux !!!!! In my
> case, I took the datas given by Win XP for PCMCIA port and used them 
> as following in the config.opts file :
>
> # range of port addresses :
> #####################
> include port 0xcc00-0xccff
> include port 0xd000-0xd0ff
> include port 0xd400-0xd4ff
> include port 0xdc00-0xdcff
> # range of memory addresses :
> ########################
> include memory 0xfa200000-0xfeafcfff
>
> As you can see, there is a significant difference between my previous 
> and actual config.opts files. With such a file,
> under SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1, I can use my Com One modem card (not the 
> Hayes and I can't explain why) and
> the FA411 card.
> So, if Win XP is not installed on your laptop, well try do it in order 
> to get the right date for PCMCIA port. If
> you can try a dual installation, Win XP and SuSE 9.2 (9.3), the boot 
> being managed by Win XP (lilo for linux on the
> boot partition). Perhaps with Grub.
>
> Well, it's up to you : try and tell us what you get.
>
> Regards
>
> Pascal
>
>
> ===========================================
>
> I have been trying to get a second wireless card to work in my hp 
> laptop with a 64 AMD. I have not been successful at all. I have found 
> that I believe that SuSE is mis detecting the orinoco gold card that I 
> am trying to use. When that card is plugged in I get the following. 
> When it is not plugged in these lines are not in the system log.
>
> Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs 2>&1'
> Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: + FATAL: Module memory_cs not found.
> Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: modprobe exited with status 1
> Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: module 
> /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available
> Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: bind 'memory_cs' to socket 0 
> failed: Invalid argument
>
> I have never had a problem with the orinoco gold card and SuSE. I have 
> used it with 9.1 and 9.2 but only the 32 bit version. I am now using 
> the 64b version. Any ideas?
>
> David