Re: [9fans] pcmcia/cardbus rtl8139 support

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

hello

Seems that devpccard is the only one that hangs the computer.

If i plug a pcmcia card (network card or tv card those are the one i
have been able to get) the pc hangs, and more funny, sometimes, when i
poweroff-poweron the computer and it hanged due to pccard, the kernel
hangs without a card in the slop.

i mean, boot with a card -> kernel hangs -> poweroff -> poweron ->boot
without a card -> kernel hangs (crappy hardware :-? too much smart
bios with weird settings? )

Also if i insert a card on an already booted system, it get's hanged.

i will try to see any devpccard changes in the last months, it will be
a great success to recover plan9-bility of my work notebook (while the
broadcom drivers gets done the pccard is the only way to have
network).

thanks

gabi


On 3/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> that's great progress for one day.
>
> *nopcirouting is not typically helpful and if your machine worked
> before without pcirouting, it is unlikely that it would help now.
>
> one silly quesiton.  is the card plugged into a working network?
> is this different than before when it was working?
>
> at this point it would make a lot of sense to try the older driver.
> if the older driver works, there don't appear to be many changes
> so if this is the problem, you can easily figure out which one
> broke your 8139.
>
> - erik
>
> On Thu Mar 29 04:58:55 EDT 2007, gabidiaz@gmail.com wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > thanks for the encouragement.
> >
> > I compiled a new kernel without pccard support, and now it boots, even
> > the sdata wiht the new ids and the hd dma. I'm pretty sure i will get
> > used to the dma speed quickly :)
> >
> >
> > I added the DEBUG param in devpccard and got:
> > #Y0: Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge, B0000000 intl 11
> > engine(0): SlotFull(CardPowered)
> > configuring slot 0 (SLotPowered)
> > engine(0): SloptPowered(CardConfigured)
> >
> > that is with the card plugged and the kernel hanging, without the
> > card, the kernel has started to work (before wasn't, the *nopcirouting
> > seems to be unrelated as i tested with and without and get the same
> > results, i suppose i'm the guilty of that previous failure)
> >
> > so i suppose the problem is between devpccard and rtl8139 driver.
> >
> > that was the only pccard i have, i will look into rtl8139 to see if i
> > can get a conclusion.
> >
> > thanks all,
> >
> > gabi
>