No dice on changing the memory addresses. Your suggestion didn't work,
and I'm not familiar enough with hardware on that level to be willing to
just start plugging in different values.
Any other ideas anybody?
- Theo
scottW wrote:
>
> Theo Brinkman wrote:
> >
> > ARRRGGGH!
> >
> > I just updated my kernel with kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm along with the
> > kernel-pcmcia-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm, and my laptop no longer recognizes
> > EITHER of my pcmcia cards.
> >
> > They are:
> > ---
> > 3Com Megahertz 10Mbps Model 3CXE589ET
> > 3Com Noteworthy 56K Modem PC Card Model 3CXM056-BNW
> > ---
> >
> > I get the following response when I try to start pcmcia services:
> > ---
> > Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr.
> > cs: unable to map card memory!
> > cs: unable to map card memory!
> > memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use
> > cs: unable to map card memory!
> > cs: unable to map card memory!
> > memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use
> > ---
> >
> > My /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.conf file looks like this:
> > ---
> > PCMCIA=yes
> > PCIC=i82365
> > PCIC_OPTS=
> > CORE_OPTS=
> > ---
> >
> > Somebody PLEASE clue me in as to what I screwed up.
> >
> > - Theo
>
> Theo,
>
> PCMCIA options are in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
> There is a line:
>
> include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff, memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
>
> Maybe the new pcmcia needs to have these adjusted? They look
> suspicious. video ROM is 0xc0000-0xc7fff(32KB) and system ROM is
> 0xf0000-0xfffff. The large memory region is for cardbus(pci). Insert
> the card with an Xterm open running tail -f /var/log/messages and see if
> you can tell what memory region is being tried.
>
> You could try changing the low mem region to 0xd0000-0xeffff which
> should be free unless your video bios > 32KB or you have card with an
> option ROM(SCSI, etc.).
>
> I'm just guessing. Don't have a laptop at home, just at work.
>
> scottw
