maybe the ioport is really already in use try "less /proc/ioports""
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:07:31PM +0200, Juan C. Amengual wrote: > Dear sirs, > > first of all, beg your pardon for the dramatical subject of this e-mail > ;-), but I'm really desperated. My problem: > > I have an ASUS F7400 Laptop (a.k.a. ASUS Grandio Laptop). I have > installed Debian 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato). I have a PCMCIA SCSI Card: Adaptec > SlimSCSI 1480A Cardbus (Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host Adapter). I am still > trying to make it work under Potato. When I insert the card in any > socket, I always receive the following message: > > aic7xxx: <Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI controller> at PCI 35/0/0 > aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use, ignoring. > scsi : 0 hosts. > > I can't imagine why the I/O ports are already in use. Well, let's tell > the whole story. > > I install kernel-source-2.2.15 package and also the PCMCIA source. I > compiled both the kernel and modules with make-kpkg (kernel-package). > After installing the .deb packages, I tried to make the PCMCIA card work > and I got the messages above. Yes, both cb_enabler and apa1480_cb are > charged in memory (lsmod). I have repeated this process as much as five > times (of course, selecting SCSI support in kernel, but choosing no SCSI > low-level adapter). Desperated, I have purged all 2.2.15 stuff (source, > image, modules, etc.) and I have installed (today) the 2.2.17 > kernel-image (potato) and the corresponding PCMCIA modules. Okay, let's > give us a chance! ;-(( No, the same error messages. I have read the > whole PCMCIA HOWTO, checking if the config.opts defines a large enough > IO memory range and ... ¡yes! Everything seems to be okay, but my card > is still not working! A colleague of mine has the same laptop. He > installed Mandrake and ... the same card is perfectly working in his > system. I have checked the config files in the Mandrake and it seems the > same as in my Debian system. Where the error is? Must I have to install > Mandrake? ... No, ¡never! ;-) > > Please, anybody can help me? I have already posted this message in the > spanish users list (a week ago) and I got no answer to my problem. I > have just suscribed to this list as the last chance to make the card > work. And ... some more info: the card works fine in the Windoze also > installed in my lapton. It reports: > > IRQ=11; Memory=06020000-06020FFF; I/O port=1000-10FF; > Memory=06010000-0601FFFF > > Of course I have checked all of this in /proc/interrupts and > /proc/ioports. Concretely the I/O port range is not in use. Thank you > very much in advance for your help and patience. > > Best regards, > > P.S.: By the way, someone can tell me how to use the kernel-package > (make-kpkg) to configure the PCMCIA modules? I have tried make-kpkg > modules_config and it didn't work. Well, I am trying to build the > "trusted" versions for cardctl, etc. and there is no way of achieving > this with make-kpkg. Have I to return to the "old-style" stuff (you > know, make dep; make clean; make bzlilo, etc.)? > > ================================================================================ > > JUAN CARLOS AMENGUAL Treasure the moments > UNIVERSIDAD JAUME I touched with joy, > DEPARTAMENTO DE INFORMÁTICA but remember the moments > CAMPUS DE RIU SEC, EDIFICIO TI tarnished and stained. > CASTELLON, 12071. SPAIN. > Phone: +34 964 728361 Wayne Hussey (The Mission) > Fax: +34 964 728435 - "Wake", The First Chapter, 1986/87, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phonogram - > > ================================================================================ > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.interface-business.de
