[RULE] Summary of PCMCIA problems in Red Hat

[M. Fioretti]

Hello,

this is a summary of all the info I gatered about what is not working
in my laptop with Red Hat 9. Including lspci output as David
requested. What's happening is that I can't even hang the PC with
PCMCIA cards because it doesn't activate (as far as I understand) the
cardbus bridge chip.

NEC VERSA 6030x laptop with the TI PCI1130 cardbus bridge which
doesn't work.According to what I've found online it requires the
i82365 module, and works with "just a regular 2.4 kernel and pcmcia-cs
3.2.5 (to detect pcmcia card insertion)" according to the author of
http://patter.mine.nu/thinkpad.html). The same guy also wrote me to
use:

"Relevant kernel config options, add in support for whichever pcmcia
cards you have, I've used:

CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA=m
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
CONFIG_I82365=y
"

Even this page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~am23/comp/fujitsu555T.html
confirms that that bridge works under Linux, and gives details about
modules used (i82365) IRQ (11) and a working /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.

The relevant output of lspci -vvb on Red Hat 9 is:
####################################################################
00:03.0 CardBus Bridge: Texas Instrument PCI1130 (rev 04)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Step ping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
Region 0: Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non prefetchable)
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt- PostWrite-
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:03.1 CardBus Bridge: Texas Instrument PCI1130 (rev 04)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Step ping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 255
Region 0: Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non prefetchable)
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt- PostWrite-
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
####################################################################

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Marco Fioretti                 mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
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