Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:02:15 -0700 | From | "J. Robert von Behren" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and PCMCIA (broken) |
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FWIW, I've seen strange but hard-to-reproduce behavior with the PCMCIA stuff in test6-pre6 and test6-pre9 on my laptop (Sony VAIO 505TX). I'm primarily using the wavelan_cs module, which may have something to do with the problems (wavelan_cs seems to behave more poorly than the other network drivers I've used on this laptop). Here are the things I've seen:
* wavelan_cs sometimes doesn't get unloaded when the card is removed * after some time, the card services seem to get wedged, and don't find any cards when I insert or remove them. (restarting cardmgr doesn't help) * I got an OOPS while doing "insmod wavelan_cs" at one point. I forgot to save the current ksyms, though, so I couldn't get anything interesting from it.
I hadn't bothered to send a note to LKML up to this point, b/c I haven't been able to consistently reproduce any of these problems. Given that others are having problems as well, though, perhaps these additional clues will be meaningful to someone. I'll send a followup note if I find any additional information (or if the problems seem to go away with test6, which I haven't tried yet....)
Best,
-Rob von Behren
John Kennedy wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:37:22AM -0700, David Ford wrote: > > David Ford wrote: > > Hmm, not so nifty. test6 completely breaks pcmcia with either package. The > > kernel pcmcia modules load and all is configured but no packets are passed and > > netdev timeouts and status errors as well as a supposed lack of eeprom. the > > top socket still hangs the machine. > > I happened to be playing with 2.4.0-test6 on my laptop last night > and your email caught my eye. For me, test6 wasn't totally broken. > There does seem to be a mandatory 60-SECOND DELAY starting up any > network connection though (even myself, external IP or loopback). > Once the connection starts up (SSH, pinging some box, etc) it stays up > and seems fine so far. > > In my case, I'm using the kernel pcmcia modules and a slightly patched > version of xirc2ps_cs.o out of pcmcia-cs-3.1.17. > > [#define enet_statistics net_device_stats] > > This kernel was installed on a base system that is also running > vmlinux-2.2.17pre15 where pcmcia-cs compiled cleanly and was fully > installed, so I'm sure there is some amount of fudge going on here. > > > dhinds Aug.7 package compiles more cleanly than .19 but fails to load, attached > > are snippets from this. > > I'll have to look into those. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Linux version 2.4.0-test6 (warlock@pandora) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #135 SMP Wed Aug 9 23:39:18 PDT 2000 > ... > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: starting, version is 3.1.17 > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: watching 2 sockets > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: Card Services release does not match > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: initializing socket 0 > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: socket 0: Xircom CE3-10/100 Fast Ethernet > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: executing: 'modprobe xirc2ps_cs' > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: + modprobe: Can't locate module xirc2ps_cs > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: modprobe exited with status 255 > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.0-test6/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o' > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh) > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora cardmgr[139]: executing: './network start eth0' > Aug 10 07:58:32 src@pandora kernel: eth0: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 3, hwaddr 00:10:A4:C3:59:02 > Aug 10 07:58:35 src@pandora kernel: eth0: MII link partner: 0021 > Aug 10 07:58:35 src@pandora kernel: eth0: MII selected > Aug 10 07:58:35 src@pandora kernel: eth0: media 10BaseT, silicon revision 4 > ... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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