Subject: Re: where did the card go?
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
From: Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@uswest.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/15/2000 21:32:40
At 9:29 PM -0500 3/15/2000, John Kohl wrote:
>
>This used to happen a while ago if the PCMCIA controller didn't decode
>bus port addresses with the same number of bits as the Portege.  Try
>fiddling with PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE (set it in your config file to
>something).  (I looked at the code just now in i82365_isasubr.c, and it
>seems to try some bus port address line width detection, but maybe it
>gets it wrong on your laptop?)

Thanks for the tip!  That did it.  I looked at the file and followed
the suggestion for both the IOBASE and IOSIZE settings for 10-bit
addresses, put it in the kernel, and booted it on the Libretto, and
it now returns the MAC address.  Cool!

==Leonard Sitongia
   sitongia@uswest.net
   http://www.users.uswest.net/~sitongia/