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SubjectRe: Bug in pcmcia-core
Adam Belay wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:37:30PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have tried conacting the mailing list for the PCMCIA subsystem in
>>Linux, but no-one seems to respond.
>>
>>PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM
>>L: http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
>>S: Unmaintained
>>
>>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.
>
>
> It's possible.
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>Can anybody help me?
>>
>>James
>
>
> Please provide more information. /proc/ioports, lspci -vv, the ranges
> assigned to your driver, and your driver code if it's available. I'll try
> to look into the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>

Please see bug#5057. I have placed all the information there.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057

James
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