According to Manuel Bouyer:
>
>On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:14:13PM +0200, Technolord wrote:
>> Hi. I have a 486 laptop running 1.4.2, and a nokia pcmcia GSM modem.
>> My problem is: when I plug the modem in, it get recognized as com1 BUT a
>> message "com1: cannot allocate i/o space" appears. Of course, the com1
>> (tty01) doesn't work :) Using a 33.6k pcmcia modem works just fine --
>> I/O space is allocated, and it responds to AT commands.
>
>Did you try to compile a kernel with 'options PCMCIADEBUG' and see what it
>says ?
>

If that doesn't help try adding:

options         PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=0x500
options         PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=0x100

Your gsm card may be clashing with some existing hardware which was a
problem I had with my wavelans.

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