Subject: Re: ne2000 PCMCIA not working as PCMCIA either.
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/16/1999 18:06:25
Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:42:21 -0500
>  seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:
>
>  > Huh.  My laptop probes my ne2000 fine with yesterday's pcmcia code, but
>  > ignores it with today's, or hangs with cardbus.  *sigh*.
>
> Power cycle the machine, so that the BIOS preprograms the CardBus bridge
> into PCMCIA Legacy mode.
>
> FWIW, the CardBus code doesn't work right on my Dell Inspiron 3500, either.

I had to do some horrible hacks to get CardBus to work on my Vaio 505tx.
It seems that BIOS doesn't include the CardBus bridge in its PCI enumeration
nor does it assign an interrupt to it.  So I have a totally disgusting hack in pci.c
that does this.  I'll be happy (but ashamed :) to send it to people.

Maybe it's time to write our own PCI enumeration code?

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        -- Lennart