Hello Chris, Oops that was for the IBM-38xED series of
laptops . JimL
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> Hello Chris, Man speak of -just- having been there ....
>
> Try adding to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts near any other 'exclude'
>
> exclude irq 5
> exclude irq 9
>
> It seems that linux (& NT) see it on irq 5 but will not
> communicate with it there , After setting the above you
> will fing that linux may see it on irq 10 . Hth
>
> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Chris Chiappa wrote:
> > (All output is from the latest PCMCIA snapshot as of 1/14/99 with
> > kernel 2.2.0-pre7) Hi there, I'm trying to get a Linksys 10/100
> > cardbus card to work on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 which is apparently
> > powered by the infamous ToPic95 chipset. The card exhibits identical
> > behaviour in a Dell Inspiron 3500 which seems to have a TI cardbus
> > controller. The card works in both machines on NT, so it's not a
> > problem with the card itself...in fact it looks like the card *almost*
> > works under Linux which is very frustrating. I've moved its base
> > address and irq around to no avail, which means it shouldn't be a
> > conflict of some sort. The cardmgr and modules seem to load up fine:
> >
> > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.8
> > kernel build: 2.2.0-pre7 #1 Thu Jan 14 18:52:34 EST 1999
> > options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
> > Intel PCIC probe:
> > Toshiba ToPIC95-B PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 11, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets
> > host opts [0]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] [lat
>168/176] [bus 20/20]
> > host opts [1]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] [lat
>168/176] [bus 21/21]
> > ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,10 polling interval = 1000 ms
> >
> > Previous incarnations of the pcmcia drivers generally pick up a pci
> > irq of 11, which is set in the BIOS. I can get a normal PCMCIA
> > Linksys NE2K compat PC-Card to work inboth machines fine, however the
> > Cardbus card using the Tulip driver isn't very happy. Inserting the
> > card doesn't evoke a response from the cardmgr, but you can get it to
> > recognise the card with a 'cardctl insert' at which point:
> >
> > cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> > cs: cb_config(bus 20): vendor 0x1011, device 0x0019
> > fn 0 bar 1: io 0xa00-0xa7f
> > fn 0 bar 2: mem 0xa00c0000-0xa00c03ff
> > fn 0 rom: mem 0xa0080000-0xa00bffff
> > cs: cb_enable(bus 20)
> > bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21): 0xa00-0xa7f
> > bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1): 0xa0080000-0xa00c0fff
> > tulip_attach(bus 20, function 0)
> > tulip.c:v0.89L 10/9/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip at 0xa00, 00 80 00 80 00 80, IRQ 10.
> > eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT.
> >
> > The big tip off that something is wrong is of course the hardware
> > address...00:80:00:80:00:80 isn't it. At this point on the Toshiba,
> > 2.0 kernels generally get extremely unstable and lock hard within a
> > minute or so, while 2.2 kernels seem fine. The Dell and the 2.2 kernel on the
>Toshiba both eventually give you:
> >
> > eth0: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is f0678006, CSR6 b3862002.
> >
> > I've made a bunch of files available at
> > http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/topic/ which contains as much
> > debugging info as I thought to gather off the top of my head, mostly
> > from /proc, various incantations of lspci and dmesg, any help/advice
> > anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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