Chris Chiappa wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:23:00AM +1000, kristof kowalski wrote:
> > the tecra8000 uses the topic97 controller which from my testing seems to
> > be a tad troublesome. i think toshiba only recently started to pass on
> > board level information to linux developers.
> So I gather...I originally approached this problem assuming it was an issue
> with the topic controller, but the fact that a Dell machine with an apparent
> TI controller exhibits the same behaviour has me confused - it's also very
> irritating because at this point I have no idea whether the problem is in
> the Cardbus driver or the tulip driver...
from what i have seen the TI controllers are quite good. the TI1120 and
1121 i think are used by dell, work just great so i doubt that it will
be the controller code. when interogate the card with cardmgr does it
pick anything up at all? if it at least reads the CIS on the card then
it would point to a resource problem as opposed to any bad compilation.
> > from my testing with Xircom cards on the 8000's it's almost near
> > impossible to get a 32bit cardbus card to work. in fact not once have i
> > got one to work. 16bit pc cards are no problem. of coarse this is to the
> > underlying drivers for the cards aswell not just the pcmcia module.
> We originally started pursuiing the Linksys cardbus because it seemed like
> it was fairly well supported (Linksys even has instructions on their web
> page), and uses the Tulip driver which has always been a favorite choice of
> mine. :> Unfortunately it's been nothing but pain.
yerp. cardbus is a real pain at the moment, not just under linux. at
least we can look on the bright side aswell, nt doesn't any more
controllers then linux does. :)
well i'll be interested if it gets working. i had a shot at installing
some of our cards again on a toshiba 490cdt, the same topic_97
controller as the 8000 and well, same problems, but that is more of case
of the Xircom carbus cards not being supported, yet. ;]
well my 5 mins worth.
kristof kowalski // xircom
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