>
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :
> : OK -
> :
> : pccard (or, more likely, the pcic driver) hangs when I insert
> : my ethernet card into the pcmcia slot on my VAIO F480 (with
> : 4.5-RELEASE.)
> :
> : The entire machine is hung up tight.
> :
> : When I remove the card, everything comes "alive" again....
> :
> : This clearly feels like a missed interrupt somewhere...
> :
> : So - how do I start to attack this problem? I was thinking DDB
> : in the kernel would be the way to go, but if the machine is hung,
> : how do I interrupt it?
>
> Set a breakpoint in pcic_pci_intr before inserting the card. Try
> reading various exca registers by hand to see if reading one of them
> fixes things. Try looking at the pci memory mapped cardbus registers.
> Get lots of datasheets.
OK - I'll start looking around....
>
> : Any thoughts on how to debug this issue would be greatly
> : appreciated. I'm hoping a little stumbling around, err.... debugging,
> : will shed light on this.
>
> Good luck. I fought this one for a long time and gave up in the end
> and putting the hw.pcic.intr_path in as a work around.
But... that doesn't work for me. If it set it to "1" - the machine
will not boot.
Also - I need to understand why this machine worked so well with
4.1-RELEASE, and doesn't with 4.5-RELEASE. I'm guessing there
was a significant change of some kind?..
- Dave Rivers -
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