Hi, I wonder if some can help me sorting out the problems that I am experiencing with the above hardware (even with pointers to helpful discussions on this ml).
The laptop, that is sort of older, is installed with ubuntu karmic 32 bit (which, to the best of my knowledge uses 2.6.31 and should not have special patches wrt pcmcia). When I insert a 3G pcmcia card for mobile internet access: 1) the kernel can see the insertion of a pcmcia card 2) the pcmcardctl ident command correctly identifies the card 3) the serial_cs module gets correctly loaded 4) udev makes /dev/ttyS0 point to a new device in the sys hierarchy 5) the card starts flashing its led in the way it is expected to do but 6) lspci cannot see the card 7) dmesg stops at the pcmcia 0.0: registering new device (printed twice, both for pcmcia 0.0 and 0.1), but does not say anything like 0.0: ttyS0 at I/0 0x3F8 (irq = 19) is a 16550A as other laptops do with the same card. 8) ttyS0 remains not responsive. >From what I see, the laptop has a TI cardbus controller, using the yenta-socket driver. Following the instructions on the linux pcmcia site, it looks like the card does not necessitate any resource db. Additionally, I can report that the machine has less than 1GB (512 MB, in fact), since I have read that there might be problems with cheap bridges and large amounts of memory. Finally, I have tried with and without the pci=assign-busses options with no difference. The thing that is puzzling me, is that from the net I get the impression that this laptop had pcmcia working just fine with linux in the past (in the web I find positive reports from 2004, 2005 and 2006). So, I am facing a regression? The laptop is not currently in my hands, but I can get it for a couple of days to help debugging if someone can help me. Thanks Sergio _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
