chris,
the tecra8000 uses the topic97 controller which from my testing seems to
be a tad troublesome. i think toshiba only recently started to pass on
board level information to linux developers.
from my testing with Xircom cards on the 8000's it's almost near
impossible to get a 32bit cardbus card to work. in fact not once have i
got one to work. 16bit pc cards are no problem. of coarse this is to the
underlying drivers for the cards aswell not just the pcmcia module.
make sure that on the toshiba you have the controller set to
cardbus/16bit as automatic is a pile of .... and quite often fails to
initialise. even windozeNT doesn't pick up the controller nativelly.
in short i'd be quite interested myself if you get this to work.
cheers.
kristof kowalski // xircom technical support
Chris Chiappa wrote:
>
> (All output is from the latest PCMCIA snapshot as of 1/14/99 with
> kernel 2.2.0-pre7) Hi there, I'm trying to get a Linksys 10/100
> cardbus card to work on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 which is apparently
> powered by the infamous ToPic95 chipset. The card exhibits identical
> behaviour in a Dell Inspiron 3500 which seems to have a TI cardbus
> controller. The card works in both machines on NT, so it's not a
> problem with the card itself...in fact it looks like the card *almost*
> works under Linux which is very frustrating. I've moved its base
> address and irq around to no avail, which means it shouldn't be a
> conflict of some sort. The cardmgr and modules seem to load up fine:
>
> Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.8
> kernel build: 2.2.0-pre7 #1 Thu Jan 14 18:52:34 EST 1999
> options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
> Intel PCIC probe:
> Toshiba ToPIC95-B PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 11, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets
> host opts [0]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] [lat
>168/176] [bus 20/20]
> host opts [1]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] [lat
>168/176] [bus 21/21]
> ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,10 polling interval = 1000 ms
>
> Previous incarnations of the pcmcia drivers generally pick up a pci
> irq of 11, which is set in the BIOS. I can get a normal PCMCIA
> Linksys NE2K compat PC-Card to work inboth machines fine, however the
> Cardbus card using the Tulip driver isn't very happy. Inserting the
> card doesn't evoke a response from the cardmgr, but you can get it to
> recognise the card with a 'cardctl insert' at which point:
>
> cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> cs: cb_config(bus 20): vendor 0x1011, device 0x0019
> fn 0 bar 1: io 0xa00-0xa7f
> fn 0 bar 2: mem 0xa00c0000-0xa00c03ff
> fn 0 rom: mem 0xa0080000-0xa00bffff
> cs: cb_enable(bus 20)
> bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21): 0xa00-0xa7f
> bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1): 0xa0080000-0xa00c0fff
> tulip_attach(bus 20, function 0)
> tulip.c:v0.89L 10/9/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip at 0xa00, 00 80 00 80 00 80, IRQ 10.
> eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT.
>
> The big tip off that something is wrong is of course the hardware
> address...00:80:00:80:00:80 isn't it. At this point on the Toshiba,
> 2.0 kernels generally get extremely unstable and lock hard within a
> minute or so, while 2.2 kernels seem fine. The Dell and the 2.2 kernel on the
>Toshiba both eventually give you:
>
> eth0: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is f0678006, CSR6 b3862002.
>
> I've made a bunch of files available at
> http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/topic/ which contains as much
> debugging info as I thought to gather off the top of my head, mostly
> from /proc, various incantations of lspci and dmesg, any help/advice
> anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
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