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February 3rd, 2006
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Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
Hi. I've been fighting with PCMCIA issues on two machines that predate Pentium III processors (I'm just using that as a marker), and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for me. I'll try to explain the issues in as much detail as possible.
First, I've tried three different PCMCIA cards:
In short, neither of those two machines will acknowledge a PCMCIA card when it is inserted. The output of an lspci or lspci -v command gives only cardbus hardware info. By comparison, putting the same card into my Dell XPS M170 yields this line. ... Quote:
To complicate things further, all three cards will work perfectly on the EzBook 700E when installed (with the proper drivers, of course) under Windows XP. (The Compaq won't run WinXP and I don't have the patience for any earlier versions.) I've tinkered with server installations under Ubuntu 5.10 and with DSL 2.1b, and the same problem happens with both distros. I've also tried the PCMCIA tool that comes with DSL, but I think it's just a GUI for the cardctl program, which doesn't have any better success. Keep in mind that no drivers are installed, and ndiswrapper is not in use. Personally, I don't think drivers or ndiswrapper would be of much help, since they would simply report that the hardware was not installed (in fact, I know this to be true, since I've tried full Ubuntu installs on the EzBook and I get the same results). I'm starting to wonder if there was a change in PCMCIA protocol somwhere between 1998 and 2005 that keeps the older machines from acknowledging a newer PCMCIA card (without prodding from Windows, which is why they work in the EzBook under WinXP). Can anyone suggest a way of prodding Linux into acknowledging those slots? Thanks in advance. Cheers. |
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Gee! These Aren't Roasted!
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
I don't have a fix for you, but I do have a suggestion - lspci only displays PCI cards. ONLY cardbus cards are PCI! PCMCIA cards are basically a special variant of ISA bus with plug and play information.
Perhaps you'd do better troubleshooting using lshw, which is designed to show other kinds of cards as well. hope this helps you troubleshoot... Mario |
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February 3rd, 2006
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
Thanks. I'll try that as well.
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February 4th, 2006
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First Cup of Ubuntu
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
Hey there. I'm new here. First post, in fact... and trying to learn about Ubuntu but having a bit of a hard time of it.
First off, I'm having the EXACT same problem you are with an older laptop and a Linksys wireless card. Did you manage to resolve the problem, and if so, how did you do it. And please, if I can ask in advance, keep it simple and walk me through the steps, since I'm really new to all this. --- D |
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February 4th, 2006
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
No, unfortunately, I haven't gotten a solution. I hunted down the documentation for the PCMCIA routines that Linux uses, but the bulk of it is so far over my head that it did me little good.
I've posted this message in four forums, but this one is the only one that seems productive. If I hear anything I will DEFINITELY repeat it here, just for the sake of other Ubuntu users. But surely somebody uses a PCMCIA wireless card on an early laptop and can give us some sort of clue?  |
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February 5th, 2006
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
Well, I seem to be moving in the right direction, even if I'm not making much progress.
I tried the acpi=off trick described here, but it was only moderately successful. I found that, after modifying the GRUB command line, I could get ident and info out of cardctl, but only for the CF card reader. And I couldn't mount it, because I'm not sure what format a CF card uses for the mount command.  If it isn't one thing, it's another, right?Frustrating, to say the least, but like I said, a step in the right direction. I still have no idea why either of the wireless cards won't follow suit, but I'm starting over with a clean system, in hopes of figuring it out. I have a sneaky suspicion that all my tinkering and tweaking might have some effect on what I'm doing. Either way, I would more than welcome suggestions. Cheers! |
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February 7th, 2006
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
Another update in my eternal quest to understand legacy PCMCIA and how it works with Linux 2.6.12.
Apparently there are some known situations where the PCMCIA card is undetected, but these seem unique to other hardware, other kernels or other configurations. I don't think it's a bug, I think it's some sort of quirk of legacy systems. I built a custom kernel for the Compaq that stripped out anything made after 1993, and included anything I could think of that might improve PCMCIA support. But apart from speeding things up slightly, I had no better success than when I attached the acpi=off flag to my GRUB command line. As a troubleshooting measure, I used the Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD in my father's Inspiron 8000, and aside from configuring the WPC11, there was no problem whatsoever getting it online. The same PCMCIA card was ignored in the EzBook 700E ... except in Windows, of course. I suppose that means my suspected hardware change did happen somewhere between the Pentium and Pentium III models, which only vaguely pins it down for me. Unless it's a hardware command that powers up the card, making it recognizable ... ? I haven't given up yet, although I could easily write it off and find another cheap P3 laptop to tinker with, and get started networking. I guess I'm just one of those people who can't let something alone. And I am learning a lot. As always, every idea and suggestion is highly appreciated. Short of "Use Windows, dude." edited: Removed a mislink. And for some reason I had the Linux version wrong. Last edited by mohapi; February 8th, 2006 at 01:06 PM.. |
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
I just realized I haven't been very good at giving the help it might take to solve this problem. Here are a few common commands that might give you information about this situation.
These are from the CTX EzBook 700E. This is a socket 7 machine that came stock with 64MB and a Pentium II 233Mhz processor. The machine has been upgraded to a K6-III 475Mhz and 128MB RAM. This is a dual boot WinXP and Ubuntu 5.10 server install on a 2GB Toshiba 4200rpm hard drive (gawd that drive is SLOW and LOUD). The card is inserted. This model has an indicator light to show the presence of a card in either socket. The card works perfectly under Windows XP, when the drivers are installed. Ndiswrapper is not running or installed. I don't believe it will come into play until the device can be detected. Output, as root, of cardctl ident ... Code:
Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: no product info available Code:
PRODID_1="" PRODID_2="" PRODID_3="" PRODID_4="" MANFID=0000,0000 FUNCID=255 PRODID_1="" PRODID_2="" PRODID_3="" PRODID_4="" MANFID=0000,0000 FUNCID=255 Code:
[4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-9-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable) [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [4294667.296000] 128MB LOWMEM available. [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 32768 [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 28672 pages, LIFO batch:15 [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 [4294667.296000] DMI not present. [4294667.296000] ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP [4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 08000000 (gap: 08000000:f8000000) [4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists [4294667.296000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash [4294667.296000] No local APIC present or hardware disabled [4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01101000) [4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0 [4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 232.141 MHz processor. [15952.682114] Using tsc for high-res timesource [15952.683646] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [15952.688284] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [15952.690156] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [15952.719323] Memory: 121860k/131072k available (1415k kernel code, 8696k reserved, 763k data, 224k init, 0k highmem) [15952.719357] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [15952.719869] Calibrating delay loop... 457.72 BogoMIPS (lpj=228864) [15952.737078] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [15952.737121] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [15952.737235] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [15952.738095] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [15952.738155] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [15952.738215] CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line) [15952.738240] CPU: After all inits, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 [15952.738285] CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c [15952.738320] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [15952.741832] Checking for popad bug... OK. [15952.742804] checking if image is initramfs... it is [15956.584853] Freeing initrd memory: 4791k freed [15956.589535] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [15956.589805] EISA bus registered [15956.590291] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xeb360, last bus=2 [15956.590357] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [15956.590381] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) [15956.592375] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729 [15956.592394] ACPI: Interpreter disabled. [15956.592420] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [15956.592527] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled [15956.592550] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... [15956.593348] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00ff020 [15956.593386] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xec000:0x230d, dseg 0xec000 [15956.601684] PnPBIOS: 16 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 16 recorded by driver [15956.602100] PCI: Probing PCI hardware [15956.602124] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [15956.603716] Boot video device is 0000:00:08.0 [15956.607939] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:01.0 [15956.608009] PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0a.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask [15956.608049] PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0a.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask [15956.613401] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved [15956.613431] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved [15956.613459] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x398-0x399 has been reserved [15956.613487] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved [15956.613514] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x3f3-0x3f3 has been reserved [15956.613542] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x3f7-0x3f7 has been reserved [15956.613571] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f could not be reserved [15956.619528] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [15956.619578] audit: initialized [15956.620616] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [15956.620792] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [15956.621110] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) [15956.621170] devfs: boot_options: 0x0 [15956.621486] Initializing Cryptographic API [15956.621527] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. [15956.622376] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [15956.719657] isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive' [15956.719683] isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total [15957.031517] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [15957.033826] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [15957.034020] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [15957.034053] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [15957.034627] ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [15957.035394] ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A [15957.069645] pnp: Device 00:0d activated. [15957.070184] ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [15957.071769] io scheduler noop registered [15957.071862] io scheduler anticipatory registered [15957.071907] io scheduler deadline registered [15957.071994] io scheduler cfq registered [15957.076953] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [15957.078063] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [15957.078107] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [15957.078140] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3 [15957.078214] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [15957.078502] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [15957.088860] IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes [15957.090114] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [15957.090924] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [15957.091416] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) [15957.092265] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [15957.092316] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [15957.095432] Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed [15957.190527] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 [15957.447986] Capability LSM initialized [15957.616048] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [15957.750424] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [15957.750537] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [15957.811741] PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1 [15957.811815] PIIX4: chipset revision 1 [15957.811834] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later [15957.811880] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio [15957.811951] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio [15957.812017] Probing IDE interface ide0... [15958.075593] hda: TOSHIBA MK2104MAV, ATA DISK drive [15958.687873] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 [15958.688376] Probing IDE interface ide1... [15959.359747] hdc: CD-ROM CDR_U241, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [15959.665814] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 [15959.666799] ide2: I/O resource 0x3EE-0x3EE not free. [15959.666823] ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe [15959.666846] Probing IDE interface ide3... [15960.179753] Probing IDE interface ide4... [15960.692814] Probing IDE interface ide5... [15961.245722] hda: max request size: 128KiB [15961.548421] hda: 4233600 sectors (2167 MB), CHS=4200/16/63, DMA [15961.548459] hda: cache flushes not supported [15961.549050] /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 > [15961.633455] hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache [15961.633502] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [15965.160990] Attempting manual resume [15965.161731] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? [15965.533628] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs [15965.533938] usbcore: registered new driver hub [15965.543806] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 [15965.544276] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:01.2 (0000 -> 0001) [15965.544319] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered [15965.544341] PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:01.2 [15965.544470] uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB [15965.607835] uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [15965.607893] uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000fbe0 [15965.609295] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [15965.609441] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [15972.473394] Attempting manual resume [15972.491336] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? [15972.618564] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [15972.618663] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [15977.541245] md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 [15993.626599] Adding 84632k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 [15994.443299] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal [16034.776359] pnp: Device 00:0c activated. [16034.776389] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. [16034.776463] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] [16034.920711] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). [16035.242107] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [16036.105486] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 4.1, id: 0x148a1, caps: 0x0/0x0 [16036.125308] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 [16038.808893] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output [16043.633146] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com [16047.551771] cdrom: open failed. [16055.106884] piix4_smbus 0000:00:01.3: Found 0000:00:01.3 device [16056.210834] Linux Kernel Card Services [16056.210870] options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] [16056.336632] PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0a.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask [16056.336685] PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered [16056.336708] PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0a.0 [16056.336816] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.0 [0000:0000] [16056.457042] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 9 [16056.457062] Socket status: 00000000 [16056.506853] PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0a.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask [16056.506910] PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0a.1 [16056.507025] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.1 [0000:0000] [16056.627063] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 9 [16056.627082] Socket status: 00000000 [16061.470861] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 [16062.176737] input: PC Speaker [16063.965706] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [16063.965983] floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use [16065.569105] irda_init() [16065.569243] NET: Registered protocol family 23 [16067.349735] pnp: Device 01:01.02 activated. [16067.392641] gameport: NS558 PnP Gameport is pnp01:01.02/gameport0, io 0x201, speed 817kHz [16080.253715] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean. [16080.256595] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean. [16080.261174] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. [16080.262023] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. [16080.264292] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. [16080.265138] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. Code:
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description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 128MB
*-cpu
product: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 5.8.12
size: 250MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
*-cache
description: L1 cache
physical id: 0
size: 64KB
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 430TX - 82439TX MTXC
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@00:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-isa UNCLAIMED
description: ISA bridge
product: 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@00:01.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@00:01.1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=PIIX_IDE
resources: ioport:3000-300f
*-ide:0
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0
logical name: ide0
clock: 33MHz
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: TOSHIBA MK2104MAV
vendor: Toshiba
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
version: E4.02 A
serial: 88E40351
size: 2067MB
capacity: 2067MB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm
configuration: smart=on
*-ide:1
description: IDE Channel 1
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@1
logical name: ide1
clock: 33MHz
*-cdrom
description: IDE CD-ROM
product: CD-ROM CDR_U241
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@1.0
logical name: /dev/hdc
version: 1.04
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio
*-usb
description: USB Controller
product: 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1.2
bus info: pci@00:01.2
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd
resources: ioport:fbe0-fbff irq:11
*-usbhost
product: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
vendor: Linux 2.6.12-9-386 uhci_hcd
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1
logical name: usb1
version: 2.06
capabilities: usb-1.10
configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=2 speed=12.0MB/s
*-bridge
description: Bridge
product: 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1.3
bus info: pci@00:01.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bridge
configuration: driver=piix4_smbus
resources: irq:9
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD]
vendor: Neomagic Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@00:08.0
version: 01
size: 16MB
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga bus_master
resources: iomemory:c5000000-c5ffffff iomemory:c6e00000-c6ffffff iomemory:c7100000-c71fffff
*-pcmcia:0
description: CardBus bridge
product: PCI1131
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: a
bus info: pci@00:0a.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus
resources: iomemory:8000000-8000fff irq:9
*-pcmcia:1
description: CardBus bridge
product: PCI1131
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: a.1
bus info: pci@00:0a.1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus
resources: iomemory:8001000-8001fff irq:9
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Module Size Used by sg 33696 0 scsi_mod 124872 1 sg pcmcia 24584 4 analog 10528 0 ns558 5508 0 gameport 14472 3 analog,ns558 irtty_sir 7808 0 sir_dev 17324 1 irtty_sir irda 159804 2 irtty_sir,sir_dev crc_ccitt 2176 1 irda pcspkr 3652 0 rtc 11832 0 yenta_socket 22540 2 rsrc_nonstatic 12032 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 44932 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 8336 0 i2c_core 19728 1 i2c_piix4 dm_mod 50364 1 joydev 9280 0 tsdev 7616 0 evdev 9088 0 psmouse 26116 0 mousedev 10912 0 parport_pc 31812 1 lp 11460 0 parport 32072 2 parport_pc,lp md 40656 0 ext3 115976 1 jbd 48536 1 ext3 processor 23100 0 uhci_hcd 28048 0 usbcore 104188 2 uhci_hcd ide_cd 36996 0 cdrom 33952 1 ide_cd ide_disk 16128 3 ide_generic 1664 0 piix 9476 1 ide_core 125268 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,piix unix 24624 10 fbcon 34176 0 tileblit 2560 1 fbcon font 8448 1 fbcon bitblit 5248 1 fbcon vesafb 8088 0 cfbcopyarea 4480 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 2944 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 3840 1 vesafb softcursor 2432 1 vesafb capability 5000 0 commoncap 6784 1 capability Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) 0000:00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 0000:00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 0000:00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) 0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01) 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) 0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 0000:00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Region 4: I/O ports at 3000 [size=16] 0000:00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 11 Region 4: I/O ports at fbe0 [size=32] 0000:00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 9 0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 (4000ns min, 63750ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0 Region 0: Memory at c5000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at c6e00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] Region 2: Memory at c7100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at 08000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 08400000-087ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 08800000-08bff000 I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt- PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128 bytes) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at 08001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 08c00000-08fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 09000000-093ff000 I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 edited: Removed uglifying typo. Last edited by mohapi; February 7th, 2006 at 05:18 PM.. |
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February 7th, 2006
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A Carafe of Ubuntu
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
One last note: I've seen the bug report for PCMCIA in Linux 2.6, and the problem with port subordination, but adding pci=assign-busses to the kernel boot line did nothing. Thanks.
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February 13th, 2006
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Re: Managing PCMCIA ports on pre-P3 laptops
Well, it is time for me to admit defeat. I played my last card today (no pun intended), and came up with nothing to show for it.
I recompiled the kernel for the EzBook 700e, this time leaving out the PCMCIA structure that was built in by default. Hours later, I installed it, ran it and tried to incorporate the PCMCIA services for Linux package. Unfortunately, that turned into an entirely new can of worms -- and one I decided I didn't want to open. It was too time-consuming, I couldn't be sure it would be of any real use, and most of all, the resources I needed to do it properly were online ... and without my PCMCIA wireless, I can't get online with that machine. So I was caught in a bit of a Catch-22. That's quite a catch, that Catch-22. Best there is. Perhaps one day when I have more than just a month's experience with Linux and a better grasp of hardware quirks, I'll tackle the problem again. I don't know how Windows is able to activate those cards on these machines, but the solution is beyond my grasp. Either way, my efforts are posted here for the benefit of the next person who stumbles onto this problem. I wish them better luck. I appreciate the help I found in this forum and the suggestions everyone made, even if it was just "install ndiswrapper, dude." The real tragedy is this: The function for either of these laptops is as a passive network monitor (not even an Internet gateway, just a monitor), so without Internet access, they are of little use to me. I love these old machines, but I don't like keeping things that have no function. I call that junk. I think they shall pass into the great afterworld of technology, the digital heaven, the place where all good computers go when they die ... eBay.  Cheers and good luck. See you all around the boards.  |
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