Dear sirs, first of all, beg your pardon for the dramatical subject of this e-mail ;-), but I'm really desperated. My problem:
I have an ASUS F7400 Laptop (a.k.a. ASUS Grandio Laptop). I have installed Debian 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato). I have a PCMCIA SCSI Card: Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480A Cardbus (Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host Adapter). I am still trying to make it work under Potato. When I insert the card in any socket, I always receive the following message: aic7xxx: <Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI controller> at PCI 35/0/0 aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use, ignoring. scsi : 0 hosts. I can't imagine why the I/O ports are already in use. Well, let's tell the whole story. I install kernel-source-2.2.15 package and also the PCMCIA source. I compiled both the kernel and modules with make-kpkg (kernel-package). After installing the .deb packages, I tried to make the PCMCIA card work and I got the messages above. Yes, both cb_enabler and apa1480_cb are charged in memory (lsmod). I have repeated this process as much as five times (of course, selecting SCSI support in kernel, but choosing no SCSI low-level adapter). Desperated, I have purged all 2.2.15 stuff (source, image, modules, etc.) and I have installed (today) the 2.2.17 kernel-image (potato) and the corresponding PCMCIA modules. Okay, let's give us a chance! ;-(( No, the same error messages. I have read the whole PCMCIA HOWTO, checking if the config.opts defines a large enough IO memory range and ... ¡yes! Everything seems to be okay, but my card is still not working! A colleague of mine has the same laptop. He installed Mandrake and ... the same card is perfectly working in his system. I have checked the config files in the Mandrake and it seems the same as in my Debian system. Where the error is? Must I have to install Mandrake? ... No, ¡never! ;-) Please, anybody can help me? I have already posted this message in the spanish users list (a week ago) and I got no answer to my problem. I have just suscribed to this list as the last chance to make the card work. And ... some more info: the card works fine in the Windoze also installed in my lapton. It reports: IRQ=11; Memory=06020000-06020FFF; I/O port=1000-10FF; Memory=06010000-0601FFFF Of course I have checked all of this in /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports. Concretely the I/O port range is not in use. Thank you very much in advance for your help and patience. Best regards, P.S.: By the way, someone can tell me how to use the kernel-package (make-kpkg) to configure the PCMCIA modules? I have tried make-kpkg modules_config and it didn't work. Well, I am trying to build the "trusted" versions for cardctl, etc. and there is no way of achieving this with make-kpkg. Have I to return to the "old-style" stuff (you know, make dep; make clean; make bzlilo, etc.)? ================================================================================ JUAN CARLOS AMENGUAL Treasure the moments UNIVERSIDAD JAUME I touched with joy, DEPARTAMENTO DE INFORMÁTICA but remember the moments CAMPUS DE RIU SEC, EDIFICIO TI tarnished and stained. CASTELLON, 12071. SPAIN. Phone: +34 964 728361 Wayne Hussey (The Mission) Fax: +34 964 728435 - "Wake", The First Chapter, 1986/87, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phonogram - ================================================================================
