[vortex] 3c575_cb.c and the 3CXFEM656C CardBus PCMCIA

[Illo de' Illis]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:26:51PM +0100, Illo de' Illis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:39:30AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Not good.
> > 
> > Could you please go back to the first combination (kernel Cardbus+3c59x) and
> > send the `dmesg' output.  Also, run `lspci -vvxx' and send the output
> > which relates to the 3c656.
> > 
> > David may be able to suggest why the cardservices layer can't allocate the
> > I/O space?
> 
> OK, I've tried the configuration with Linux v2.4.0-ac9+cardbus and 3c59x
> Here is the kernel output after card insertion:
[...]

I've just tried with Linux 2.2.18+PCMCIA 3.1.23 and it behaves the same:

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Jan 17 01:24:15 knuth kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 32): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x6564
Jan 17 01:24:15 knuth cardmgr[154]: initializing socket 0
Jan 17 01:24:15 knuth cardmgr[154]: socket 0: 3Com 3CXFEM656C w/Winmodem
Jan 17 01:24:15 knuth cardmgr[154]: executing: 'modprobe cb_enabler'
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cb_enabler.c 1.31 2000/06/12 21:29:36 (David Hinds)
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth cardmgr[154]: executing: 'modprobe 3c575_cb'
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99Q 5/16/2000 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: register_driver('3c575_cb')
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: ds: register_pccard_driver('3c575_cb')
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cb_attach(0)
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cb_event(0x000004)
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cb_config(0xc71e2900)
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cs: cb_config(bus 32)
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for CardBus socket 0
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: cs: cb_release(bus 32)
Jan 17 01:24:16 knuth kernel: 3c575_cb: RequestIO: Out of resource
Jan 17 01:24:17 knuth cardmgr[154]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
Jan 17 01:24:17 knuth kernel: cb_detach(0xc71e2900)
Jan 17 01:24:17 knuth kernel: cb_release(0xc71e2900)
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 32)
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth cardmgr[154]: shutting down socket 0
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth cardmgr[154]: executing: 'modprobe -r 3c575_cb'
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth kernel: unregister_driver('3c575_cb')
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth kernel: ds: unregister_pccard_driver('3c575_cb')
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth kernel: cb_enabler: unloading
Jan 17 01:25:33 knuth cardmgr[154]: executing: 'modprobe -r cb_enabler'
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I'm pretty amazed... I've tried with two other identical cards from a
friend of mine who has plenty of them and uses them with Windoze, and they
behave the same. So the card is ok....

Ciao,
Illo.

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