Re: [9fans] pcmcia/cardbus rtl8139 support

["Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>]

hello

i'm still trying to get this notebook work. (ibm z60t)

Any ideas why the 9pcf kernel provided with the install cdrom is able
to boot the system while a local compiled version (with the sources
from the cdrom and the configuration untouched) hangs after the memory
line is printed (1015M memory: 256 kernel data, 758 user, 1383 swap) ?

i added debug codes in sdata.c but i've to much output to see
anything, i saw the last command returns a timeout (i suppose was a
probe command and is not an error).

I added also the iofree(port) to the rtl, now the port is free (the
complain message doesn't appear), but the card is still not
recognized.

i added to pci.c the id 8086/2641 of the intel southbridge ich6 mobile
 (with the original kernels, the one that boots, and the one that
doesn't boot, both, prints the line about not finding southbridge).
And added too the sdata disk id to the dma switch as commented on a
recent thread.

The modified kernel also does not boot and hangs in the same point.

this notebook has no serial and no network (broadcom 57x, rtl8139
card), should i give up? (it was working(tm) with an old plan9
installation from oct 2006 or so, but i lost the cd somewhere and i
wanted to add venti. . .).

thanks

gabi

On 3/28/07, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > I fixed the bug in rtl8139reset that wasn't freeing the port when
> > rtl8139reset failed.
>
> ethervt6102.c needs a similar correction:
>
> 952a953
> >                       iofree(port);
> 958a960
> >                       iofree(port);
>
>