[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: Laptop Docking station - extra pcmcia sockets problem.
lkhoo at csc.com.au
lkhoo at csc.com.au
Fri Sep 27 09:10:02 EST 2002
well, just for refrerence I got it working finally!
after alot of help from Ian Donaldson (Thanks mate!) we figured out that
the "extra_sockets" parameter wasn't being passed to the modprobe command.
The actual problem ended up being that the startup scripts on mandrake 8.2
don't allow for any pcmcia module options!
So, in /etc/init.d/pcmcia I just modified the line :
/sbin/modprobe $PCIC
to
/sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTIONS
and put
PCIC_OPTS='extra_sockets=1' in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
Too easy in the end! :)
Lucas
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btw: yes i realise the time is wrong on the machine ;)
bios battery or something must be running low on power or something.
Lucas
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I have a toshiba 480CDT with docking station.
I need to be able to use atleast 3 of the 4 pcmcia sockets that the machine
has (2 in laptop, 2 in docking station). In this machines previous life as
a windows machine they all worked. 2 wireless cards (omni + direction
galaxy) and 1 ethernet.
Under mandrake 8.2 I can't seem to get the pcmcia startups to see these 2
extra ports on the docking station. The 2 on the laptop itself work fine.
I have hunted around on the internet and have found a few things about
pcmcia services.
Firstly, my machine makes use of a standard i82365 controller. As such
there is a web site that listed the extra parameters for this module.
pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/man/i82365.4.html
On this page it says to :
extra_sockets=n
A flag indicating if the driver should probe for as many as eight ISA
sockets, or stop after checking for four sockets. The default is 0 (stop at
four sockets). Systems with two independent ISA-to-PCMCIA controllers (say,
one internal and one in a docking station) may require this flag to be set,
even though they have a total of only four sockets. If this flag is set,
then poll_interval will automatically be enabled.
Now, in the /etc/init.d/pcmcia there is a section that checks the dist of
linux it is running on. As mandrake is much like red hat it runs the
/etc/sysconig/pcmcia to put a few environment variables into memory before
executing the "insmod" commands.
To add that extra parameter "extra_sockets" i edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
and put in PCIC_OPTS="extra_sockets=1".
But when the machine boots I don't seen to even try and scan 4 sockets.
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
***---> Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: Intel i82365sl B step ISA-to-PCMCIA
at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: host opts [0]: none
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: host opts [1]: none
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,12 status
change on irq 10
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0
x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c589, io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr
00:60:97:8E:F4:5B
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: 8K FIFO split 5:3 Rx:Tx, auto xcvr
Sep 27 13:17:29 koops kernel: eth0: flipped to 10baseT
Anyone know what im doing wrong?
Thanks
Lucas
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