Hello all
My previous mails were sent during last August about this problem with
PCMCIA card and Linux 2.6.5.
I could hope that the kernel 2.6.8 should solve it, as it was written by
some users. Hereafter my proble
0== my laptop, the PCMCIA cards and linux system :
Asus L5800DF Athlon64 socket 754
- modem PCMCIA Platinum Card MC227 v90 of ComOne (should work fine
according to tuxmobil.org)
- ethernet card Netgear FA411 (a 16 bits one)
SuSE Linux 9.1 AMD64 with the kernel of the SuSE 9.2 AMD64, a 2.6.8-24-3
(the previous one : a 2.6.5-7-111)
1== what says linux during boot without PCMCIA card (dmesg) :
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1043:1854]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 9
Socket status: 30000006
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.1 [1043:1854]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
2== details about cardbus with "lspci -vv" :
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-
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-
Reset- 16bInt+
PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
3== the config.opts file in /etc/pcmcia (partial view)
# This are the official ports to use from pcmcia-cs, but ...
# include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
# ... ports 0x810-0x81f hurt on some DELL machines and ...
# ... ports 0x3b0-0x3df hurt on some FSC machines.
#include port 0x100-0x4ff
#include port 0x800-0x8ff
#include port 0xc00-0xcff
#include port 0x3000-0x7fff
# according to lspci -vv for Cardbus
include port 0x0000-0x1000
include port 0xb000-0xcfff
#
include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff
include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
include memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff
include memory 0xe0100000-0xe17fffff
# according to lspci -vv for Cardbus
include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000
#
# High port numbers do not always work...
# include port 0x1000-0x17ff
# Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
#include port 0xa00-0xaff
# Resources we should not use, even if they appear to be available
# First built-in serial port
exclude irq 4
# Second built-in serial port
#exclude irq 3
# First built-in parallel port
exclude irq 7
4== with the inserted network card FA411 :
--- cardctl status
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]
Socket 1:
no card
--- cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "NETGEAR", "FA411", "Fast Ethernet"
manfid: 0x0149, 0x0411
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available
--- cardctl info
PRODID_1="NETGEAR"
PRODID_2="FA411"
PRODID_3="Fast Ethernet"
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0149,0411
FUNCID=6
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
===> it seems OK but nothing else done with this card. Wiith Yast, the
NetGear FA411 is well seen for configuration. A good new :-) ?
4== with the inserted modem card :
--- dmesg
serial_cs: no usable port range found, giving up
serial_cs: RequestIO: No more items
====> no such info with last kernel 2.6.5-7-111
--- in /dev/
a symbolic link /dev/modem is done with /dev/ttyS2, instead of /dev/cua2
with kernel 2.6.5-7-111
NB : ttyS0 is serial port, ttyS1 is the irda port
--- cardctl status
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready], [wp]
Socket 1:
no card
--- cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "PCMCIA CARD MEMBER", "FM56R-NCTV2", "021", "A"
manfid: 0x0013, 0x0000
function: 2 (serial)
Socket 1:
no product info available
--- cardctl info
PRODID_1="PCMCIA CARD MEMBER"
PRODID_2="FM56R-NCTV2"
PRODID_3="021"
PRODID_4="A"
MANFID=0013,0000
FUNCID=2
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
5== with kppp
when a request is sent to the /dev/modem or /dev/ttyS2 with kppp, the
answer is : modem is busy :-(
So, I am probably doing something bad but I don't see what. If you see
what I have to do, thanks very much to write it me :-)
Pascal
