In message <19990211122138.A13739@beast.boogers.sf.ca.us>  Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> I just picked up a "Viking PC Card Modem 56k" because I'm in Virginia
> on business, and it was the only PCMCIA modem I could find which doesn't
> _seem_ to be a winmodem.  (It claims to have mac support as well, which
> would seem to support that notion)
> 
> However, it locks the machine (an IBM Thinkpad 600 running -current
> as of a few weeks ago) on first access, and sometimes on probe.

I gues you have a PCI/cardbus bridge. AFAIK it doesn't turn on
VPP to 5V automaticly like the PCIC chip does.
If the card uses both as VCC the card is 'half' powered.
This is a problem with scandisk's (flash memory) too.
It's on my list of things todo, as my COMPAQ laptop has it too.

Stefan

> 
> Is there anything I can do?  I picked it up because I'm tired of
> having to boot into windows to dial out... Here's how the card probes,
> if it helps:
> 
> 
> pcmcia1: CIS version PCMCIA 2.0 or 2.1
> pcmcia1: CIS info: Viking, V.90 K56flex, 021, A
> pcmcia1: Manufacturer code 0x13, product 0x0
> pcmcia1: function 0: serial port, ccr addr 200 mask 17
> pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 32: I/O card; irq mask 86bc; iomask a, iospace 3f8-3ff; audio
> pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 33: I/O card; irq mask 86bc; iomask a, iospace 2f8-2ff; io8 audio
> pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 34: I/O card; irq mask 86bc; iomask a, iospace 3e8-3ef; io8 audio
> pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 35: I/O card; irq mask 86bc; iomask a, iospace 2e8-2ef; io8 audio
> pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 48: I/O card; irq mask 86bc; iomask 3, iospace 0-7; io8 audio
> com2 at pcmcia1 function 0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff: serial device
> com2: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
> 
> Thanks for any input or assistance!
> +j
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz

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Stefan Grefen                                Tandem Computers Europe Inc.
grefen@hprc.tandem.com                       High Performance Research Center
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