Hi Nick and Richard,
Thanks for both of your comments...
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:46:27PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:58:16 +0100
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
> > But when I try to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start on gentoo I get
> > PCMCIA support detected.
> > Starting pcmcia...
> > cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
> > modules built or support compiled into the kernel
>
> Theres a pretty telling error message. "cardmgr failed to start"
I figured it wasn't a good thing. But what exactly does it tell you?
At the moment I am thinking that I havn't yet got the kernel to see
the PCI to Cardbus adapter at all, rather than just having problems
with a card not being recognised.
I note that under my old working SuSE system, the pccard directory
in proc contains:
% ls -l /proc/bus/pccard
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 1 00:05 00
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 01
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 02
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 03
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 drivers
There are two slots for PCMCIA cards (one type I and one type II) in
the notebook, and two in the docking station, so I assume that the
two digit numbers refer to the slots and should show up even if no
card is inserted.
I tried booting with no docking station and no cards inserted, and
do indeed get:
% ls -l /proc/bus/pccard
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 1 00:05 00
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 01
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 drivers
However on my gentoo install, I get just
% ls -l /proc/bus/pccard
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 1 15:23 drivers
So I assume that my initial problem is a fairly fundamental failure
to recognise the the PCI to Cardbus device corresponding to the
SuSE boot messages:
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.28
kernel build: 2.4.10-4GB #1 Fri Sep 28 17:20:21 GMT 2001
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Intel PCIC probe: <4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of devicei
00:06.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:06.1. Please try
using pci=biosirq.
Toshiba ToPIC97 rev 20 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:06, mem 0x10000000
host opts [0]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x11] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq]
[lat 168/176] [bus 18/18]
.
.
But I gather 2.6 kernels handle this a bit differently, so I am not sure
what I should expect to see.
Can anyone with a working laptop gentoo install confirm what messages I should
expect to see from gentoo??
Is there something special in the kernel config that I need to tweak to
get this 'Toshiba ToPIC97' device to work? I see no mention of it in the
the gentoo dmesg output posted earlier.
Regards,
DigbyT
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