Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:48:31 -0000 From: Paul Crossley <paul.crossley@uk.easynet.net> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: PCCARD support - Ricoh RL5C478 - Sony Vaio F809 Message-ID: <BE88953625EDD311A1C600508B5A9C5802451011@magrat.office.easynet.net>
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I have installed the 4.1 stable release on my Sony Vaio - no trouble with
the screen up to 1024x768 but that's not the issue.
I cannot get the PCCards to work.
(I've trawled the postings and discovered one other user claiming to have
the RICOH RL5c478 working but that was with a 3.5.1release + PAO3-2000102
but I believe that PAO has been rolled into 4.1.)
I've tried booting from a 3.5.1 pccard installation floppy but with no
success and
from a 4.2 installation floppy - neither pick up my Xircom Realport 10/100
card (16 bit)
although the source code for the XE driver indicates that this should be
fine.
So what are the symptoms ?
The pccardd detects cards being inserted and removed but comes up with 'no
card in database for "(null)"("(null)") '.
Thinking that this just needed tweaking the card recognition program I
started looking at the "readcis.c" file to see if I could implement a
kludge.
However, not wanting to go to the effort if my diagnosis was wrong I
decided to try a different card first.
I therefore tried an ancient Adaptec Slimscsi (1460a) card that is listed in
the /etc/defaults/pccard.conf file
but got the same 'no card in database ...' response.
So as a test I tried this
insert Xircom RE100 card
pccardc dumpcis >xxx
swap Xircom card for Adaptec slimscsi 1460a
pccardc dumpcis >yyy
cmp xxx yyy
the result - the cis dumps are the same despite the different cards.
I even tried the same thing with a reboot in-between but got the same
result.
I guess this means that communication with the cards is broken as the CIS is
not
being read properly which is a shame given that mandrake Linux on the same
machine is fine.
dmesg shows :
...
pcic-pci0: <Ricoh RL5478 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 12.0 on pci0
pcic-pci1: <Ricoh RL5478 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 12.1 on pci0
...
pcic0 : <Intl i82365> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd000 irq 10 on isa0
pcic0 : management irq 10
pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version > on pcic0
pccard1: <PC Card bus -- kludge version > on pcic0
...
has anyone any suggestion as to what I can do (apart from give up :-) ).
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