Hello, everybody!


it has been quite a long time since i checked the forums, if i am not mistaken 3 months or maybe more!!!
i have been studying quite hard for my CCNA final exam due the month after this next month.


I have just bought an IBM thinkpad 240
and a 3com 3cxfe575ct XJACK 10/100 pcmcia card for it , i installed Vector 3.2 on this, unfortunately the kernel that came with this distro did not have the proper module for this card.
A bit of reading, sent me to pcmcia-3.2.0-cs, downloaded it , configured it and installed it, a bit of more reading pointed me to the right module.
As the card model number implies, 3cxfe(575)ct the right module was 3c575_cs.o, so i proceeded to do a "modprobe" on it, replied that such module could not be found.
I checked the directory of /lib/modules/ had the driver folder
(under pcmcia folder) and it was there, this is strange,
the cardmgr pops up beeping that the card was detected, when i inserted it.

anyone could tell me what to do next? this is actually my very first notebook and i don't have experience with pcmcia cards.

regards

You can't modprobe normal pcmcia modules by hand, cardmgr binds them... hopefully it loaded the right one, what's the output of

/sbin/lsmod

and the chunk of "dmesg" that pertains to the pcmcia load of the card?

Cheers,

Finegan

issueing the lsmod command will give show :
modules
ds
i82365
pcmcia_core

on dmesg is the following:


.........
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August......
Linux pcmcia card services 3.2.4
kernel build : 2.4.20 #2 Tue Apr 15 20:40:11 BST 2003
options [ pci ] [ cardbus ] [ apm ] [ pnp ]
PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6b80
PnP BIOS version 1.0 , entry found at f000:843c , dseg 400
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloding pcmcia card services

#here the same message is repeated twice
#then:

intel isa/pci/cardbus pcic probe:
pci: found irq 7 for device 0.0:0a.0
ti 1211 rev00 pci-to-cardbus at slot 00:0a, mem 0x10000000
host opts [ 0 ] : [ ring ] [pci + serial irq ] [ pci irq 7 ]
[ lat 168/176 ] [ bus 0/1 ]
pci irq 7 seems to be wedged!
pci irq 7 test failed
pci irq 5 seems to be wedged!
pci irq 11 seems to be wedged!
pci irq 15 seems to be wedged!
isa irqs (scanned) = 3,10 polling interval = 1000 ms
cs: cb_alloc (bus0): vendor 0x8086, device 0x79192

#here dmesg ends

i have tried changing irqs on the bios of the laptop
irq 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15 can be changed or disabled.
but it still comes with the same problem only with the irq i have changed.
there are 4 pci/irq allocation options on the laptops bios,
if i disable any of them machine the won't boot.




regards

In /etc/pcmcia/config.opts you can enter in irqs for pcmcia to ignore, if you put in the wedged ones, then it should work out. Is there a chunk of dmesg for what it horks on after card insertion? Or does that event not even get registered?

Cheers,

Finegan

Yes, right when the pcmcia sevices kick in, i can hear a beep,
if i take the card out it will be beep when i put it in
it beeps saying card found at bus0 at mem 0x.......
then it says failed to allocate resources
but i'll do what have suggested

cheers!

found this link : http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-v...-Oct/0001.html
and it seems that the problem is not drivers or cardmgr
failing to load modules it is an IRQ problem!!
i hate irq problems!!