Hi all, This is a message I've already posted on the newby list a few days ago......due to no response I'm giving it a try here. ___________________________
I'm having a spot of trouble with a realtek pc card on my laptop. If I 'hotplug' it into my pcmcia slot it freezes the laptop after a few minutes needing a hard reboot. Booting with the card inserted doesn't kill everything straightaway but after a while freezes as well:o( Removing the card (i.e manually removing) restores life again. Looks like irq's so I stopped usb (which I wasn't using anyway) on the same irq (9) ---to no avail. Checking on the mobilix homepage this cardbus is specified 'working' and points to drivers available at SiteCom which alas aren't there (anymore?). I like a good challenge but I'm in the dark about cardbus. The way I gather it: It goes in the pcmcia slot and is then handeled as a hot plugged pci device (it shows up as RTL-8139/8139C with "lspci") through the CardBus bridge (ricoh RL5C475). The mobilix info appears to point to adding a pcmcia device but "cardctl ident" just stats a 3.3v cardbus device...???? I also get quit a few kernel error messages on eth0 (I'm not in the mood for typing them over....yet) suggesting that's what freezing the machine. So do I go about this as a pci (or usb) device or as a pcmcia device or both??? Anybody got any suggestions to get my nose pointing in the right direction, please. TIA, HarM -------------------------------------------------------
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