Ryan Hurst writes:
>  Tero I too had this problem, I resolved it by using the RBUS_MIN_START
> kernel config value. I set it to 0x40000000 as per another thinkpad users
> posting in this news group.

I think that value is set to that value by default, so I don't think
it that will help in my case... 

> 
> Ryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tero Kivinen
> To: current-users@netbsd.org
> Cc: Ken Hornstein
> Sent: 11/21/00 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Problems with 1.5_BETA CardBus
> 
> > 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).
> 
> At least that happens both in my laptop (HP OmniBook 6000) and with my
> friends laptop (Dell Inspiron 5000e).
> 
> If I turn on cardbus support in my kernel, then only the lower PCMCIA
> slot is working. If I turn the cardbus support both of them work. The
> problem in my machine seems to be in the interrupt allocation system.
> The PCIBIOS seems to allocate IRQ 10 for both cardbus slots, the
> internal 3com 3c556 MiniPCI 10/100 ethernet card (ex0) and the usb
> chip.
> 
> Only the pcmcia0 slot is working, all others does not get interrupts
> properly (or at least the pcmcia1 and the ex0 cards don't get
> interrupts at all, don't know about the usb).
> 
> When I turn off the cardbus support both pcmcia slots gets different
> irq and then they work.
> 
> I have been iterating with the PCIBIOS, PCIBIOS_INTR_FIXUP,
> PCIBIOS_IRQS_HINT, PCIBIOS_INTR_GUESS, and PCIBIOS_INTR_FIXUP_FORCE,
> but I have not yet found a combination that would give me a working
> ex0 driver (I don't care about the second pcmcia slot if I can get the
> builtin ethernet work).
> 
> On the Dell Inspiron 5000e the problem is that if the cardbus support
> is turned on then the WaveLan card does not work at all, and if it is
> turned off then his cardbus ethernet card does not work... He is
> currently rebooting between two kernels one having cardbus support and
> another not having it...
> 
> He also have a problem on the Dell Inspiron 5000e that if he tries to
> enable the apm on the kernel then the kernel will crash in the boot,
> while doing the first apmcall (kernel page fault or something).
> This same thing happens on the linux, and somebody from the Dell said
> that those machines don't support APM at all only ACPI...
> 
> If anybody has any idea what should I try next to get those interrupts
> going correctly send me email. I am almost ready to put a timer in
> kernel that will call the ex_intr every millisecond to get packets
> going :-)
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