Re: PCI oddities on Dell Inspiron 5000e w/ 2.4.x (also latitude)

[Andrea Venturi]

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hi,

sorry to bother you all...

i would like to follow up this thread because, i have too this strange
effect that with kernel 2.4.2 i'm no more able to use the pcmcia
interface (and with 2.2.17 it was ok!).

i tried to make some troubleshooting to the best of my knowledge but i
lost myself when, last email, Jeff Lessem ended saying that, just using
lilo (and not grub) the problem went away.. but is he still speaking of
the pcmcia problem?

i am using:

- a dell latitude cpx h450  (bios a07)
- 256 MB of ram
- lilo (without any mem append option)
- with 2.2.17 pcmcia is working well
- with 2.4.2 and external pcmcia-cs 3.1.24 no (i have never been able to
load the i82365.o module)

you can find in attach my dmesg and the output of "lspci -vvxxx -s03:00"
that are my pci entries of the pcmcia adapter (hope not to be a mistake
posting a couple of small bin attach) and the relevant message is:

 Intel PCIC probe: PCI: Enabling device 00:03.0 (0000 -> 0002)
 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:03.1
 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2

   Bridge register mapping failed: check cb_mem_base setting not found.

 ....

i tried to add the cb_mem_base parameter loading pcmcia_core but  in the
pci_fixup.c source is commented out when you use a >= 2.3.24 kernel, so
this line fails:

  insmod pcmcia_core cb_mem_base=0x10000000

could someone kindly shed some light!?

sorry, i'm not subscribed to lkml so, please, cc. to me, otherwise, i
will check the answers on the ml archive.

thank you in advance

andrea venturi

> In your message of: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:55:07 CST, you write: 
> > 
> >Careful, you're overwriting ACPI data now (and using it as normal RAM). 
> 
> Hmm, I guess that would be bad. 
> 
> >Can you try one of a) LILO b) a fixed version of grub c) this patch ? 
> 
> I tried LILO and the problem did indeed go away when using that. I 
> guess I'll stick with LILO until Linux or grub (whichever is broken) 
> is fixed. There is just something appealing about a proper boot 
> console on a PC...