Re: Dell Inspiron 2500 PCMCIA issues
Hi!
I've just been working on the same problem ;)
And one of the things I figured out was that it was very important that the
pcmcia-cs package is to be found under /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/ when you
compiles the kernel and the modules.
(in my place it was default put under /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.31/ :/)
The modules in kernel didn't work for me at all, so I switched off everything
with pcmcia in the kernel-config, and used pcmcia-cs as standalone.
And if you already have done this, or it still doesn't work, try to look if
your cardbus is marked as auto in your bios. If it is, mark it as cardbus or
anything apropriate...that one could also make some trouble.
-Sol-
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 15:03, Derek Broughton wrote:
> sageFool wrote:
> > I have a Inspiron 2500, with debian/unstable installed on it. I'm
> > running the 2.4.17 kernel (downloaded the source package and
> > recompiled a million times)
>
> Me too, but I've only compiled about a thousand times :-)
>
> > I have PCMCIA support turned off in the kernel and am using the 3.1.31
> > (latest) sources to the pcmcia_cs stuff.
>
> Not a good idea.
>
> > My current thoughts are that the PCI is amiss in someway. On start up
> > I get:
> >
> > PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> > Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
> > Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
> > PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/244c] at 00:1f.0
> > PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(f4300000-f42fffff) for 01:03.0
> > PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(f4300000-f42fffff) for 01:03.1
>
> "Unknown bridge resource" is OK, "Failed" is not...
>
> > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.31
> > kernel build: blah....
> > options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
>
> btw, apm doesn't work on this machine - should be:
> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
>
> (I'm presuming the [pm] means ACPI)
>
> > Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
> > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:03.0
> > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:03.1
>
> So far, so good...
>
> > Bridge register mapping failed: check cb_mem_base setting
> > no bridges found.
> > ds: no socket drivers loaded.
>
> Bingo - does dmesg mention Yenta anywhere? Should have come right after
> these messages. If I have understood correctly, you have to enable
> PCMCIA in the kernel to get Yenta.
>
> > Problems I have: Trying to set options in /etc/defaults/pcmcia I tend
> > to end up with messages that they are unknown options, even though I
> > am getting them out of the howto/docs. For example
> > cb_mem_base=0xf4300000 produces: param param_cb_mem_base unknown.
>
> You shouldn't need to specify it.
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