On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> I've seen a few reports now of PCMCIA cards that work when using a PCMCIA
> controller, but fail on the same laptop when the PCMCIA controller is attached
> as a CardBus controller (see my recent messages to port-i386 for an example).
> 
> I doubt this is a showstopper for 1.5, but I am curious; are there lots of
> people who are _using_ CardBus without any problems, or is it relatively
> uncommon?  (I'm trying to figure out if this is endemic to all laptops,
> or only a few).

This is, unfortunately, not uncommon. The cardbus code needs some patching
up, especially with regard to how it picks its PCI space (it just guesses
right now). But, to get that right, some other things need to happen
as well, like ACPI.

- Frank