On Sunday 16 February 2003 13:25, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 02:35, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> > There is a line that states:
> >
> > 0x104c 0xac1c "yenta_socket" "Texas Instruments|PCI1225 PC Card
> > Controller"
> >
> > According to a user here in Finland this does not work...
> > He has a PCMCIA - PCI card that does not work "out of the box"
> >
> > but if he changes the module to "i82365" instead of "yenta_socket" he
> > can get his PCI-card
> > to work..., so if no-one has any complaints the line above should be:
> >
> > 0x104c 0xac1c "i82365" "Texas Instruments|PCI1225 PC Card Controller"
> >
> > Thomas
>
> Thomas,
>
>    This got me looking at my box.  Since I haven't been able to get any
> carbus pcmcia card working.  And I found something my cardbus controller
> Texas Instruments PCI1450 is missing in/usr/share/ldetect-lst/pcitable
>
> I grabbed the original according to the instructions at the top of the
> file and it's not in there either.
>
> Now the question comes... what are the first two number sets for this
> one.
>
> the first would appear to be 0x104c as this is what all TI chips seem to
> be.  But the second set isn't obvious (especially since I have no idea
> what they really mean.)
>
> This might explain some of the problems others are having with this
> laptop when I google around.
>
> James

For the most (all?) busses (usb, pci ..) there are two Ids to identify the 
hardware. The first one is the Vendor Id (0x104c == TI as you said) the 
second one is to distinguish the product => ProdId. With these two values you 
can recognize the hardware in most cases (If the manufaturer sets the Ids 
right) and the drivers can be loaded. This is most important for USB and I 
guess too for pcmcia (hotplug) since there the kernel decides on a table 
which driver to use. If there is a not known ProdId but there is a hardware 
that is the same (the same driver can be used) hotplug will not be 
functional, but the driver can be loaded by hand. It would be good for future 
releases to have a web-form for reporting:

Field Vendor Id
Field Product Id
Field Module
Field description how to get this hardware to run. 

Not to forget that one hardware could have more then one driver to get it to 
run (f.i. nvidia)

Hope this is not to wrong and confuse ;)

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Steffen
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