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Topic: PCMCIA don't work, I need help

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jonam

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Posted: June 28 2006,13:25

To check your problem, I installed a 16bit ethernet card in my Compaq 1530D laptop running DSL 2.1b and had no problems. Cardmgr correctly loaded the smc91c92_cs module to manage it.

Based on what my card is doing, I don't think your problem is with the TI PCI1131 controllers. You are installing a 16 bit PCMCIA card and it will be the axnet_cs module that will handle the interrupts. You should check to see if axnet_cs is listed in /proc/interrupts. The PCI1131 interrupts will remain at zero with this card.

If you can't see axnet_cs in the interrupt list, then you might try free up some interrupts by going into the laptop BIOS and disabling the IR port and maybe the parallel port.

You might also try allocating axnet_cs a specific interrupt as per the man page for axnet_cs found at:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man4/axnet_cs.4.html

Lastly, look at the output of dmesg to see if there is any obvious problem with allocating interrupts. You should see eth0 being allocated an IRQ if all is OK.

I had a quick look at DeLi Linux's home page and it is using an older kernel (2.2.26) and I think that in that kernel, the pcmcia_cs package was used to manage PCMCIA cards using the i82365 module. In DSL, the kernel is 2.4.26 or 2.4.31 and the yenta_socket module manages PCMCIA Cardbus while the *_cs modules handle 16bit PCMCIA.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Jonam

snowyrain

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Posted: July 12 2006,22:10

Hallo,

thank you for your answer and sorry for my late reply, I have had to write a hard student research project.

Now to the problem:

I have disabled all what the bios allow, but it don't work. I don't think that the problem is the axnet_cs driver. But you are right DSL don't show a IRQ for this Networkcard, even when lsmod shows the module.
When I start only pcmcia_core I don't have any problems (OK the Networkcard don't work :cool:

). But when I start pcmcia_core and yenta_socket and I stop the X-Server the console shows "lost interrupt", "lost interrupt", "lost interrupt" ...
I think here (yenta_socket) is the problem.

I have installed Windows 98 SE and there both PCMCIA Ports are found on IRQ15. I have tried to run "insmod yenta_socket irg=15", but the module don't know the option irq=15.

Maybe the Problem ist here
PCMCIA Card Services.

Now I'm sitting here so many hours, and I don't get a positiv result

greetings

Snowyrain

Pete

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Posted: July 14 2006,18:23

Hi,
I seem to have a slightly different problem. My DSL
hardrive install runs fine, except that the PCMCIA
card does not work, although DSL says that it
is up and running.
The DSL distro is the most recent one (downloaded
today), the laptop is a Toshiba Sattelite, and the card is
a SMC 8036TX.

All the help will be most welcome, but note that I'm
a newbie in Linux and would appreciate more if
the suggestions are more explicit and simple to follow.

Thanks!!!
P

roberts

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Posted: July 14 2006,22:36

Does the boot option pci=assign-busses help?

Pete

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Posted: July 15 2006,15:01

Quote (roberts @ July 14 2006,18:36)

Does the boot option pci=assign-busses help?

Hi,

I tried to put that line "pci=assign-busses" in
/etc/lilo.conf, ran lilo but it doesn't work. Could
you be more specific as to how to try this out?

cheers,
P

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