Still problems with PCMCIA in 2.5.72

Wiktor Wodecki (wodecki@gmx.de)
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:46:23 +0200


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Hello,

there are still issues with pcmcia in 2.5 series. Although the oopses on
insert/remove from 1 month ago disappeared, cards still don't get
detected all the time. I started too see this behaviou I think after
2.5.69-bk9.
I have a TI PCI1450 cardbus bridge in my Thinkpad and cards get detected
non-deterministically (at least for me).
One time the card is detected on initial insert, the other time on the
second one and if it's not detected by then I can reboot my machine,
since it wont find it anyway (I tried 10 inserts/removes). I never made
it work (even before) to get it detected and set up on boot, but I guess
that relates to my debian unstable system..I think there's something
wicked..

here are some syslog snipplets:

Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x377 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Jun 17 22:25:25 voyager kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:30 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:39 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:46 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:52 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:58 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 0: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:58 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:58 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:59 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net
address for io base 0x300
Jun 17 22:25:59 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:26:07 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:26:09 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 0: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:26:09 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:26:09 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
No such device

=2E..

rebooting

=2E..
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x377 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
=2E..
Jun 17 22:30:42 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 0: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:30:42 voyager kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Jun 17 22:30:42 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:30:43 voyager kernel: eth0: NE2000 (DL10022 rev 30): io 0x300,
irq 3, hw_addr 00:40:05:87:DA:69

It also seems that the chance of getting the disk into system is to
insert it after the system switched to init 2 but before the login
prompt appears. There are no strange services loaded at any time, so I
have no idea what might change later on.

The system:
Gnu C 2.95.4
Gnu make 3.80
util-linux 2.11z
mount 2.11z
e2fsprogs 1.34-WIP
pcmcia-cs 3.2.2
PPP 2.4.1
isdn4k-utils 3.2p3
Linux C Library 2.3.1
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.1
Procps 3.1.9
Net-tools 1.60
Console-tools 0.2.3
Sh-utils 5.0
Modules Loaded pcnet_cs 8390 crc32 ehci_hcd

my .config:
CONFIG_X86=3Dy
CONFIG_MMU=3Dy
CONFIG_UID16=3Dy
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=3Dy
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=3Dy
CONFIG_SWAP=3Dy
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=3Dy
CONFIG_SYSCTL=3Dy
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=3D14
CONFIG_FUTEX=3Dy
CONFIG_EPOLL=3Dy
CONFIG_MODULES=3Dy
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=3Dy
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=3Dy
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=3Dy
CONFIG_KMOD=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_PC=3Dy
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_XADD=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=3D5
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=3Dy
CONFIG_PREEMPT=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_TSC=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_MCE=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=3Dy
CONFIG_MICROCODE=3Dy
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CONFIG_EDD=3Dy
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CONFIG_MTRR=3Dy
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=3Dy
CONFIG_PM=3Dy
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=3Dy
CONFIG_ACPI=3Dy
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=3Dy
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CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=3Dy
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=3Dy
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=3Dy
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CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=3Dy
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CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=3Dy
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CONFIG_ISA=3Dy
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=3Dy
CONFIG_PCMCIA=3Dy
CONFIG_YENTA=3Dy
CONFIG_CARDBUS=3Dy
CONFIG_I82092=3Dy
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=3Dy
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CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=3Dm
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CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=3Dy
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CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=3Dy
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=3Dy
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=3Dy
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=3Dy
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=3Dy
CONFIG_SCSI=3Dm
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=3Dm
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=3Dm
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=3Dm
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CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=3Dy
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CONFIG_NET=3Dy
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CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=3Dy
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=3Dm
CONFIG_NETFILTER=3Dy
CONFIG_UNIX=3Dy
CONFIG_INET=3Dy
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CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=3D256
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CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=3Dy
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CONFIG_SND=3Dy
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CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=3Dy
CONFIG_USB=3Dy
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=3Dy
CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH=3Dy
CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS=3Dy
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=3Dm
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=3Dy
CONFIG_USB_ACM=3Dm
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=3Dm
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CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=3Dy
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=3Dy
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=3Dy
CONFIG_X86_EXTRA_IRQS=3Dy
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CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=3Dy
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=3Dm
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=3Dm
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Regards,

Wiktor Wodecki

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