Re: [suse-amd64] vodafone 3g card
Yes, I have corrected config.opts and also added the memory areas reported by Windows. I also added the PCI bridge memory area. In windows the card is reported as a OPTi 82c861 PCI to USB open Host Controller using memory D04FE000-D04FEFFF, should I add this mem area to config.opts? Thanks in advanve. Josep Maria Macip
"Matt T." <Matt@Boons.net> 20/02/2005 16:46 >>> On Sunday 20 February 2005 03:09, jm macip wrote: I'm sure PCMCIA is working
PCMCIA on AMD64 might be working for some cards, but may be not for all. I understand that you already corrected your config.opts file using the output of lspci, correct? However if one card works that does not mean that all can work. Every card uses a different memory range / port range to talk to your system. I assume that some cannot use the memory / port range offered by amd64 64bit systems. Also different cards / different functions use different parts of the PCMCIA code. network cards and modem cards use different modules of the PCMCIA package. Some parts might work better than the others.
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 19/02/2005 20:49 >>>
"jm macip" <jmmacip@gsei.net> writes:
No messages! card is not recognized!
Nothing in /var/log/messages? Nothing at all? Nothing about "anonymous memory"? Nothing about "unable to access memory"? Ususally there is something showing that PCMCIA understood there is something to do for it, it wakes up, checks, and if it does not recognize what is going on there usually is a message. And as far as I've seen, if a card does not get identified, the PCMCIA code seems to try the memory_cs module, which does the output listed above. Also, type "dmesg" in a konsole window, after you inserted the card. Look at the last lines of the output. There should be something. Is it?
Really nothing at all? Search the archives of this list, could be
the
PCMCIA issue we discussed several times,
yes, not all cards could get to work, and some need dirty workarounds (as postet here this and last month)
Andreas
Andreas, is SuSE working with the PCMCIA guys to get a better amd64 support in PCMCIA, or is SuSE doing something to have yast do a better configuration of config.opts at install time with SuSE 9.3? If SuSE does nothing I would try to find the time to report the issue to the PCMCIA code owners, but I'm probably too short of time for working it out. It would be great, and also great for SuSE, if amd64 and PCMCIA would work out of the box with SuSE 9.3, but I can understand if amd64 notebooks would be too small a market to invest time in it. Just let us know, please.
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 19/02/2005 15:15 >>>
"jm macip" <jmmacip@gsei.net> writes:
Hi all: I recently bought a Vodafone 3g pcmcia card but i'm unable to make
it
work. I have followed the steps stated in this how-to http://www.pharscape.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28
but I get stuck beacause cardctl doesn't identify the card. (it is currently working with my Wl-110 wireless card)
What is the output of /var/log/messages?
Andreas
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On Monday 21 February 2005 01:07, jm macip wrote:
Yes, I have corrected config.opts and also added the memory areas reported by Windows. I also added the PCI bridge memory area. In windows the card is reported as a OPTi 82c861 PCI to USB open Host Controller using memory D04FE000-D04FEFFF, should I add this mem area to config.opts?
Why not, give it a try. After what Pascal reported about his card using memory and ports different from what lspci reported it would not surprise me. However please be aware that we could help you much better if you would answer more clearly about what you find in /var/log/messages or as "dmesg" output. Did you see my questions? If there would be indeed "No messages", as you said earlier, then PCMCIA would not even start to try to talk to the card, and then adjusting the memory and port range would not help, the PCMCIA code would not get started. I have a modem card, when I insert it, then kde freezes. Until I take it out again. After that kde works fine again. When I close down the memory / port ranges then it does not get recognized, but PCMCIA starts and gives some output. May be I just have not found the winning port / memory range for it. This just to demonstrate you that PCMCIA can work for some cards, and for others not (yet). In order to understand if you have such a not working card, your clear report of /var/log/messages or as "dmesg" output might be helpful. Also, have you seen my post that I need to kill and restart cardmanager before any card gets recognized. (I did not test yet if that is true for older kernels, or only for the latest ones which I have installed currently. As far as I remember it was not like that for the kernels current 2 or 3 months ago. HTH, Matt
Thanks in advanve. Josep Maria Macip
"Matt T." <Matt@Boons.net> 20/02/2005 16:46 >>>
On Sunday 20 February 2005 03:09, jm macip wrote:
I'm sure PCMCIA is working
PCMCIA on AMD64 might be working for some cards, but may be not for all.
I understand that you already corrected your config.opts file using the output of lspci, correct?
However if one card works that does not mean that all can work. Every card uses a different memory range / port range to talk to your system. I assume that some cannot use the memory / port range offered by amd64 64bit systems.
Also different cards / different functions use different parts of the PCMCIA code. network cards and modem cards use different modules of the PCMCIA
package. Some parts might work better than the others.
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 19/02/2005 20:49 >>>
"jm macip" <jmmacip@gsei.net> writes:
No messages! card is not recognized!
Nothing in /var/log/messages? Nothing at all? Nothing about "anonymous
memory"? Nothing about "unable to access memory"?
Ususally there is something showing that PCMCIA understood there is something to do for it, it wakes up, checks, and if it does not recognize what is going on there usually is a message. And as far as I've seen, if a card does not get identified, the PCMCIA code seems to try the memory_cs module, which does the output listed above.
Also, type "dmesg" in a konsole window, after you inserted the card. Look at the last lines of the output. There should be something. Is it?
Really nothing at all? Search the archives of this list, could be
the
PCMCIA issue we discussed several times,
yes, not all cards could get to work, and some need dirty workarounds (as postet here this and last month)
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 19/02/2005 15:15 >>>
"jm macip" <jmmacip@gsei.net> writes:
Hi all: I recently bought a Vodafone 3g pcmcia card but i'm unable to
make
it
work. I have followed the steps stated in this how-to http://www.pharscape.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28
but I get stuck beacause cardctl doesn't identify the card. (it
is
currently working with my Wl-110 wireless card)
What is the output of /var/log/messages?
Andreas
HTH, Matt
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