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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: laptop installations
To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:12:04 -0700 (MST)
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> > Well, some laptops do have slower busses and some pcmcia cards are slow
> > by themselves...
> 
> My current problem is not so much lack of bus speed but being able to talk
> to the card at all. The AST J10 doesn't use the hard-coded addresses at port
> 0x3Cx as implemented in the existing pccard driver. It seems to use a PCI
> bridge and the PCMCIA controller (a Cirrus 672x) which appears at port
> 0xfcfc. Attempts to probe for more than two cards hang the laptop :-(
> 
> Having found that, I now have some diagnostics about not being able to
> assign an I/O port .. it's getting there ..
> 
> The symptoms are identical with the D-link 650CT and the 3C589C,

Have you tried one of Nate or the Nomads' PCCARD capable boot disks?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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