Hi,
I have somehow managed to hose my PCMCIA configuration (Debian woody)
but I do not know where, when or how.
The machine was working today at noon. I spent the afternoon trying to
get some things Japanese to work in Java (mostly font related). Now
when I insert the card (AFAIK noname NE2000) or boot the machine
(Gericom NBI 600 DC notebook) I get a high, followed by a lower beep
accompanied by the following log messages from card manager.
cardmgr[264]: socket 1: Anonymous Memory
cardmgr[264]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
memory_cs: mem0: anonymous: unknown size
cardmgr[264]: executing: './memory start mem0'
kernel: memory_cs: mem0: anonymous: unknown size
So it looks like, somehow the card is mistaken for a memory card, but
why? lsmod lists the following modules:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
memory_cs 9376 0 (unused)
ds 6624 2 [memory_cs]
i82365 22416 2
pcmcia_core 41408 0 [memory_cs ds i82365]
apm 9148 1 (autoclean)
8390 5888 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 7488 0
i2c-proc 6272 0 (unused)
i2c-core 12160 0 [i2c-proc]
smbfs 31296 0 (unused)
usbnet 7240 0 (unused)
parport_pc 25704 1 (autoclean)
lp 6912 0 (unused)
parport 21728 1 [parport_pc lp]
keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
usbkbd 2848 0 (unused)
input 3072 0 [keybdev usbkbd]
usb-uhci 20708 0 (unused)
usbcore 48032 0 [usbnet usbkbd usb-uhci]
A couple of lines from dmesg that appeared to me to be relevant.
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading PCMCIA Card Services
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.1
TI 1225 rev 01 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0a, mem 0x10000000
host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 10] [lat
168/176] [bus 2/5]
host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 10] [lat
168/176] [bus 6/9]
ISA irqs (scanned) = none!<6> PCI card interrupts, PCI status
changes
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
memory_cs: ParseTuple: Bad CIS tuple
memory_cs: mem0: anonymous: unknown size
dump_cis does not know about any cards
Socket 0:
no CIS present
Socket 1:
no CIS present
At first after some googling, I thought I had a hardware failure on my
hands. But inserting another PCMCIA network as well as a modem card
produced the same results. Furthermore, the card in question works fine
in my old Laptop running Debian. So I figured that maybe the cards are
OK, but the PCMCIA hardware of the laptop has failed. So I booted a
Knoppix CD. All cards are correctly identified and work just fine so
this has to be a configuration issue. I looked at all files under /etc/
changed within the last 4 hours but that did not reveal anything
valuable. Any comments or ideas? TIA.
Best
Rolf
