I appreciate your help very much. On 12/31/09, Dave Eckhardt <davide...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote: >> pcmcia0=type=rtl8139 port=0x400 irq=10 > > Nope. "pcmcia0" tells the kernel what kind of PCMCIA > bridge you have; since you have CardBus (which is better), > you shouldn't have one of those lines unless you need to > disable the CardBus driver and use the old PCMCIA code > instead. One reason to do that, by the way, is that the > PCMCIA bridge driver accepts an IRQ override (for the > bridge itself) and the CardBus driver doesn't. I have > one Sony Vaio whose BIOS sets *all* IRQ's to 9, which > results in sadness, so I use the PCMCIA driver instead > of the CardBus driver. > >> ether0=rtl8139 > > This is also wrong. You want "ether0=type=rtl8319".
Ok, I completely removed the "pcmcia0=" entry and booted only with "ether0=type=rtl8139" as you told me. This is what I get on boot, note that the the change is that now I get "rtl8139: port 0x400 in use" two times. [...] cpu0: 748MHz GenuineIntel Pentium III/Xon (cpuid: AX 0x06B1 DX 0x383F9FF) ELCR: 08B0 #Y0: Ricoh 475 PCI/Cardbus brigde, 000DE000 intl 11 PCI.32.0.0 mem[1] 0e000000 512 rtl8139: port 0x400 in use rtl8139: port 0x400 in use ns83815: auto neg timed out 224M memory: 92M kernel data, 132M user, 507M swap root is from (tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fossil]: [...] I still get the same error message when I run ip/ipconfig. > Can you send us the output of "aux/pcmcia"? Also of > "cat /dev/ioalloc"? % aux/pcmcia pcmcia: opening #y/pcm0attr: '#y/pcm0attr' file does not exist % cat /dev/ioalloc 0 f dma 20 21 i8259.0 40 43 i8253 60 60 kbd 61 61 i8253.cntr2c 64 64 kbd 70 71 rtc/nvr 80 8f dma a0 a1 i8259.1 d0 df dma 1f0 1f7 atacmd 2b0 2df vga 378 37a lpt0 3c0 3da vga 3e0 3e1 i82365.0 3f0 3f5 floppy 3f6 3f6 atactl 3f7 3f7 floppy 400 5ff cardbus # This is the concerned card. fff fff dummy d400 d4ff ns83815 > Dave Eckhardt Best regards, F. Caulier
