We have developed our own PCMCIA implementation and are using 10K pullup
resistors instead of the 100K that the assabet/neponset used.
I am not absolutely positive that are implemetation is flawless, but we have
used the same one on our pass products.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Dorsey
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:03 PM
> To: Danny Maupin
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PCMCIA NIC PROBLEM
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 19, 2001, at 03:32 PM, Danny Maupin wrote:
>
> > When the kernel boots, it does not always recognize the card and will
> > not
> > load the drivers.
>
> Does it fail to _detect_ the card, or does it simply not _recognize_
> it? (`cardctl status` and `cardctl ident` should help to answer this
> question.)
>
>
> > If I physically eject and re-insert the card all is well.
>
> Does `cardctl insert` accomplish the same result?
>
> (The question I really mean to ask is, "is this a botched card detect
> initialization/interrupt problem, or an attribute memory access
> problem?")
>
>
> > I have also had a problem where it will recognize the card and load the
> > drivers, but all the packets are errored.
>
> (Please forgive me for asking such dull questions, but recently there
> have been reports of PCMCIA strangeness on the iPAQ that I am utterly
> unable to reproduce on any of the four different SA-1110 designs
> available to me. I'm just trying to gather information.)
>
> Do you trust your PCMCIA (hardware) implementation? (i.e., does it work
> flawlessly using some other software environment?)
>
> If your PCMCIA implementation was derived from Assabet or Neponset, have
> you seen the post on this mailing list (or maybe it was l-a-k) regarding
> the excessive pullup resistance on some of the signals from those
> designs?
>
> Have you ever attempted to run some earlier Linux kernel version (than
> 2.4.2) on this hardware?
>
> (Your Socket card is the one which was used to develop the post-Itsy
> Card Services port; it _will_ work. We'll get you sorted. =)
>
> -jd
>
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