Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:48:20 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Bug in pcmcia-core |
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James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I am trying to write a Linux ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy 2 NX > Notebook PCMCIA card. > This is a cardbus card, that uses ioports. > When it is inserted into the laptop, the entry appears in "lspci -vv " > showing ioports used by the card. > As soon as my driver uses "outb()" to anything in the address range > shown in "lspci -vv" , the PC hangs. > > I can only conclude from this that ioport resources are not being > allocated correctly to the PCMCIA card. > > Can anybody help me track this down. If someone could tell me which > PCMCIA and PCI registers should be set for it to work, I could then find > out which pcmcia registers have not been set correctly, and fix the bug. > > It seems that the PCMCIA specification is not open and free, so I cannot > refer to it in order to fix this myself.
I thought drivers for the cardbus cards were the same as standard PCI cards. I know that as far as networking goes, the same driver runs a cardbus 3com 3c575 and the pci 3c905. Same with netgear's cardbus FA510 and PCI FA310.
I'm not a kernel developer, but this is what I've understood.
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