Tom...I would absolutely be interested in trying that. My choices on what cards I can get locally are very limited(this was the only one on shelves), so I would like to make this work
Thanks, Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Sightler Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:57 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] PCMCIA ethernet card on RHEL 5.2 On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:10 -1000, Chris Richmond wrote: > Here is the last few messages when inserting the card from the logs: > > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot > 0 > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: 8139cp 0000:04:00.0: This (id 10ec:8139 > rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: 8139cp 0000:04:00.0: Try the "8139too" > driver instead. > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:00.0 (0000 > -> 0003) > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> > GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: 8139too 0000:04:00.0: cannot remap MMIO, > aborting > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device > 0000:04:00.0 disabled > Mar 4 14:04:05 RH-OUTBOUND kernel: 8139too: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed > with error -5 OK, some good info here. You can see the kernel tries the 8139cp driver, which is older and doesn't work, then tries the 8139too driver, for newer cards, which tries to work but fails because it can't setup MMIO. My guess the vendor implementation on this chipset on your particular card only supports PIO mode. The 8139too driver included with RHEL5 uses MMIO by default but does include vendor strings for particular cards that only support PIO to force PIO mode on those device. Unfortunately it doesn't look like your card is listed as a PIO only card so it simply tries MMIO and then aborts. There is actually a compile time flag that can be set to make the driver use PIO by default, however, it can't be changed at runtime in the version of the driver included with RHEL5 (more recent versions of the driver include a "use_io" module option that allow you to force PIO mode at driver load time by just adding an option to modprobe.conf). It probably wouldn't be too difficult to build a slightly newer version of the 8139too driver for the current kernel but I'm not sure how involved your wanting to get into this since that would require additional maintenance for future kernel updates. If you want to try it let me know and I'll post some instructions. Later, Tom _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
