On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 11:23 PM, David Gibson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:01:52PM +0800, shaowei dai wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Has anybody tried orinodo_cs 0.11b or 0.12b with success on symbol >> Spectrum24 High rate11M card on mpc platform? >> I've tried 2.4.18-pre3 and 2.4.19-rc3 kernel with orinoco driver. It >> works >> fine with intersil card. But >> when i try it on symbol card, it always crashes. After tracing down i >> find >> it is caused by hermes_init(). It seems the >> call to hermes_write_regn(hw,INTEN,0) cause the crash. The ksymoops >> also >> suggest this function. It is just an io write. What can be wrong? And >> most >> strange thing is why it doesn't cause any trouble in normal intersil >> card. > > That's wierd - it is just a register write, so this sounds like a > low-level problem. Is something about the card confusing the PCMCIA > system so it's reporting the wrong IO addresses? Or maybe the timing > is a little bit different and something in the slot driver can't cope. >
I would guess timing. I have seen problems between different cards with the same chipset fail on 8xx. Usually timing is the culprit. > -- > David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a > david at gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and > | wrong. > http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
