PCMCIA services running, not detecting insertion of cardbus modem.

Tarts · 10-23-2003, 12:34 AM

Hello! *prays*

My Dell Latitude is not detecting my intel 24000 bps cardbus modem. I dropped it today,

and had some difficulty's, it found my modem before, but apon an install(and 3 feet to the ground), it seems to not know when it is being inserted or is not recognizing it anymore. I checked '/var/log/messages' as per the laptop-HOWTO, the result's are as follows:
*I started then restarted the PCMCIA services*

Code:

cardmgr[49] exiting
unloading PCMCIA Card Services
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
Kernel build: 2.4.18 #1 Wed May 8 13:51:37 PDT 2002
options: [pci] [cardbus]
intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00.03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
  TI 1225 rev 01 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:03, mem 0x10000000
    host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/32] [bus 2/5]
    host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/32] [bus 6/9]
    ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,10 PCI status changes
cardmgr[167]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[168]: starting, version is 3.1.33

#lspci

Code:

00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)

I hope thats enough info for a diagnosis of some sort, any reply will be welcome.

Tarts

finegan · 10-23-2003, 01:23 AM

Yeah, that pcmcia bridge just isn't seeing anything there at all. If the modem is a cardbus modem, "dmesg" should register a cardbus lock and the module cb should load, this is even if it doesn't find a driver for the card itself. Let me be certain, this is the modem that got dropped right, not the laptop, because it seems like the bus is registering just fine...

Cheers,

Finegan

Tarts · 10-23-2003, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by finegan
Yeah, that pcmcia bridge just isn't seeing anything there at all. If the modem is a cardbus modem, "dmesg" should register a cardbus lock and the module cb should load, this is even if it doesn't find a driver for the card itself. Let me be certain, this is the modem that got dropped right, not the laptop, because it seems like the bus is registering just fine...

Cheers,

Finegan

No, it was the laptop that got dropped, on concrete, from two to three feet above ground.

By checking 'dmesg', it seems its loading PCMCIA service's, then unloading, loading...
there seems to be a "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." when it reloads, thats gone, unloads, then "mtrr: no more MTRRs available" repeated till the end. It doesnt say this in 'dmesg', on a restart it says its loading "Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/ds.o.gz".

Tarts

Tarts · 10-23-2003, 01:48 PM

Solved. It was the impact of the fall, the cardbus was not connected all the way, my neighboor took off the keyboard, and pushed the cardbus down a little, it recognized the card instantly.

Thank's for the input finegan.

Tarts