Contents: A) My Problem B) My System / Hardware C) Symptoms D) Program Outputs / Configuration Files E) Syslog F) What I tried G) Kernel Configuration
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A) My Problem
I try to run an Edimax cardbus fast ethernet card with David Hinds pcmcia package.
It is not listed in /etc/pcmcia/config and 'cardctl ident' returns no usable values (see below).
What can I do to make it run?
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B) My System / Hardware
Debian 3.0 r1 stable ("Woody")
2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel
pcmcia-cs_3.2.2-1.1_i386.deb installedSiemens Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 710 Laptop (P 166, 64 MB RAM) with Cirrus CL-PD 6832 cardbus controller
Edimax EP-4103DL 32bit cardbus fast ethernet card (which uses a Realtek 8139 chip)
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C) Symptoms
I had to remove all lines concerning memory ranges from /etc/pcmcia/config.opts except 'include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff'. Otherwise the system freezes when the card is inserted. (When I unplug the card then there are three beeps - middle, low, high.)
With the changes to config.opts I get a very short and low crack and the line 'cs: cb_alloc(bus 1):vendor 0x10ec, device 0x8139' when I insert the card.
When I remove the card I get one high beep and the line 'cs:cb_free(bus 1)'.
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D) Program Outputs / Configuration Files (with card inserted to Socket 0, in alphabetical order)
'cardctl config' Socket 0: Vcc 3.3V Vpp1 3.3V Vpp2 3.3V interface type is "cardbus" function 0:
'cardctl ident' Socket 0: no product info available PCI id: 0x10ec, 0x8139
'cardctl info' 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
'cardctl status' Socket 0: 3.3V CardBus card function 0: [ready]
'cat /proc/pci' (excerpt) Bus 0, device 20, function 0: CardBus bridge: Cirrus Logic PD 6832 (rev 193). IRQ 9. Master capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=192. Max Lat=4. Non-prefetchable 32bit memory at 0xfedfb000 [0xfedfbffff]
'cat /proc/interrupts' 0: 373833 XT-PIC timer 1: 7001 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 9: 28 XT-PIC i82365 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci 14: 101127 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0
'dump_cis' Socket 0: no CIS present
'dump_cis -f' Socket 0 common_jedec 0x18 0x36, 0x36 0x36, 0x36 0x36, 0x36 0x36
'dump_cardbus' bash: dump_cardbus: command not found
'lsmod' ds i82365 pcmcia_core apm keybdev usbkbd input usb-uhci usbcore
'lspci -v' pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space.
(without the card it reads:)
00:14.0 Card Bus bridge: Cirrus Logic PD 6832 (rev c1)
Flags: bu master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at fedfb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4k]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001/var/run/stab: Socket0: unsupported card
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E) Syslog
(excerpts:)
[...]
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[...]
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: unloading PCMCIA Card Services
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: Cirrus PD6832 rev c1 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:14, mem 0xfedfb000
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [0/7/4] [3/17/4] [pci irq 9] [lat 64/176] [bus 1/4]
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [0/7/4] [3/17/4] [pci irq 9] [lat 64/176] [bus 5/8]
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7 PCI status changes
Aug 16 13:41:04 kida cardmgr[182]: starting, version is 3.1.33
Aug 16 13:41:05 kida cardmgr[182]: watching 2 sockets
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F) What I tried
1) The card ran perfectly under WinXP on the same machine. There it was not identified as an Edimax, but as a Realtek 8139 family card.
The card configuration in system control read (translated from German):
'Realtek RTL8139-Family-PCI-Fast Ethernet-NIC' Type: Network adapter Producer: Realtek Location: PCI-Bus 1, Device 0, Function 0
Resources: I/O Range FF00-FFFF Memory Range FFEFFE00-FFEFFFFF IRQ 09
'Cirrus Logic PD6832 Cardbus-controller' Type: PCMCIA adapter Producer: Cirrus Logic Location: PCI-Bus 0, Device 20, Function 0 Resources: Memory Range FEDFB000-FEDFBFFF Memory Range FFEFF000-FFEFFFFF Memory Range F9000000-FCFFFFFF I/O Range FF00-FFFF I/O Range FE00-FEFF IRQ 09 Memory Range 000DB000-000DBFFF
2) Under SuSE 8.1 with PCMCIA_PCIC="external" the card was at least recognized by YaST2, but I couldn't get it run.
Section PCI:
RT8139
Card Type: CardBus
Bus: PCI
[...]
Resources:
mem 0xc8000
active: Yes
start: 819200
Rev: 16
Driver:
modules
active: No
modpobe: Yes
modules modprobe 8139too modules
active: No
modprobe: No
modules modprobe mii
modprobe 8139too
bus_id: 1
hotplug: cardbus
[...]3) When I insert my ELSA Microlink 28.8 MC PCMCIA Modem card when running Debian I get:
2 high beeps.
cs: warning: no high memory space available!
cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: excluding 0xdc000-0xdffff
cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcbfff
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0208-0x021f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0238-0x032f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0338-0x036f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0390-0x0387: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03a0-0x0397: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x03bf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0308-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean.
ttyS02 at port 0x03e8 (irq=3) is a 16550A
4) loading kernel module 'pcnet_cs' or 'cb_enabler'
5) /etc/default/pcmcia: CORE_OPTS: adding 'cis_speed=500' or 'cis_speed=900' adding 'cis_width=1'
adding 'wakeup=1'
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G) Kernel Configuration
/boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 (no changes made!)
(default values are:) CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_APM=m CONFIG_PNP=m CONFIG_8139CP=y CONFIG_8139TOO=y CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y
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