[BL] PCMCIA support was BL3 Options Specific for Old Toshiba Laptop

sindi keesan keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Sat Mar 18 18:23:04 EST 2006


My problem with Cardbus appears to require a Cardbus patch to the kernel. 
People have had it with this and other ethernet Cardbus cards, with 
various versions of pcmcia-cs-3*.  The card is simply not found or 
assigned any IRQ.  cardmgr does detect when I remove the card.  I booted 
with it inserted then put it in and out a few times.

cardmgr -o

vendor 0xffff, device 0xffff (means it is not really found)
cs:  no valid ROM images found!
cardmgr:  unsupported card in socket 0  (or socket 1 if I move it)
no product info available
PCI id:  0xffff, 0xffff

If I take it out I get a message about cardbus being free.

It is supposed to tell me something about 3CCFE575BT-D and manfid and 
function 6 network adapter.

I need a Cardbus patch for kernel 2.4, I think.

I will look for a non-cardbus 10Mbit PCMCIA ethernet card instead.


On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> With my new kernel I can run /etc/pcmcia/config with no error messages.
> But I still don't know how to use a Cardbus ethernet card.
>
> Insmod cardbus.o - unresolved symbol:  find_io_region, undo_irq, try_irq,
> find-mem_region

This might require the cardbus patch?


>
> Insmod 3c575_cb:  unresolved symbol:  unregister_driver, register_driver

Not recognized?


> Did I configure the kernel wrongly again?
>
> I first edited /etc/pcmcia/config, changing pcnet_cs to 3c575_cb and
> removing the misc/8390 (not needed for 3com cards, I hope), so this module
> is now used for a network card.
I also tried changing the first line after Card to the name of the card 
instead of just Network Adapter.

>
> Cardmgr -o just says it is an unsupported card.  I don't get any info on
> it but I know it uses this module (or 3c59x using the 'hotplug' method).

How would I use this method?

> Sindi
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