> I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the > latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the > pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is > significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*.
I don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9 (and I still do) without problems before the pcmcia-* upgrade. > (I can't compile pcmcia-source for Linux 2.0.36 as my compiler is > too new. Perhaps I should try and compile pcmcia-* from slink > with Linux 2.2.14??? Will that work???) Don't know. Maybe I'll give it a try. There's another odd thing: the dependencies of the pcmcia-modules-2.2.9 package (for my 2.2.9 kernel) indicate that it depends on pcmcia-cs 3.0.14 and *only* 3.0.14. I didn't use the pre-built modules but compiled the pcmcia modules from source. But the source is 3.1.8, could that be the problem? Are there some pcmcia-source packages <3.1.* (but still potato) available? I didn't find any on the debian FTP server. Do you keep them around? > I have a xircom combo Ethernet/28.8k Modem card. It works find with > Linux 2.0.36 and pcmcia-* from slink. > (sidenote: I have noticed recently that this card runs very hot - is > this normal?) All I can tell you is that all of my pcmcia cards do that as well and I haven't observed any problems. > The Ethernet card part works fine. > > lehman> Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by > lehman, uid 1001 > lehman> Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output > error(5) > lehman> Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit. > > I haven't tried pppd myself, but minicom cannot talk to the modem (no > errors, just nothing displayed). > > lehman> ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. But when > lehman> inserting the modem, the output of cardmgr looks ok: > > lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: initializing socket 2 > lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: socket 2: Serial or > Modem > lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: 'insmod > lehman> /lib/modules/2.2.9/pcmcia/serial_cs.o' > lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius kernel: tty02 at 0x17f8 (irq = 5) is > a 16550A > lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: './serial > start ttyS2' > > I get that too. Curiously, with the slink pcmcia-* packages, the > modem is assigned tty03, not tty02 - could that be significant? I don't remember that the tty assigned to the card changed, but then again, I didn't upgrade from slink but potato -> latest potato. > lehman> And setserial says: > > lehman> [lehman] ~>sudo setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 > lehman> /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x17f8, IRQ: 5 > lehman> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 > lehman> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte > lehman> Flags: spd_normal skip_test > > I get similar results from "setserial -a /dev/modem", but > "setserial -a /dev/ttyS2" just returns an error: > > /dev/ttyS2: pcmcia controlled device (/var/run/stab) Stale lockfile? > lehman> I checked /etc/pcmcia.conf and /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and > lehman> didn't find anything that looks offensive to me. What's > lehman> going on here? I don't know how to track this down, any help > > lehman> appreciated... > > Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with > the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a > hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the > card after bootup seems to be OK though. > > When I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list, somebody > suggested I replace the following parameter to my pcmcia.conf > file with: > > PCIC_OPTS='pci_csc=0' > > however, that doesn't help :-(. -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net
