CB1410 Cardbus Controller and Slackware 10.2

tangle · 04-27-2006, 07:36 PM

I have a Gateway mx7525 laptop with a CB1410 cardbus controller. I can not get it to see my Proxim 8470WD PCMCIA card.

lspci -vv

Code:

03:05.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0506
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 168, cache line size 20
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at c0202000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 40000000-41fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 42000000-43fff000
        I/O window 0: 0000b400-0000b4ff
        I/O window 1: 0000b800-0000b8ff
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

cardctl ident

Code:

Socket 0:
  no product info available

dmesg | grep card

Code:

cs: pcmcia_socket0: cardbus cards are not supported.
PCI: Bus 4, cardbus bridge: 0000:03:05.0

I have a feeling it is something stupid I am over looking. It works with knnopix. Thanks

Linux.tar.gz · 04-27-2006, 08:26 PM

Do you have some rc.pcmcia script in /etc/rc.d/ ?

tangle · 04-27-2006, 08:33 PM

Yep, /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia

Linux.tar.gz · 04-28-2006, 08:27 AM

So it should be started automatically at boot, but, just in case, type "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart". If it don't make it, then you probably have to manually load the module (driver).

Check with lsmod if these modules are loaded:
pcmcia_core
pcmcia
yenta_socket

If they aren't, load them with modprobe.

Maybe there's also another modules to load but as i never really experimented pcmcia i can't help you more. You can also go for the kernel compiling. It's very instructive and not-so-hard.

tangle · 04-28-2006, 12:34 PM

I forgot to post the lsmod output, those modules are loaded.

I have never messed with pcmcia either.

cathectic · 04-28-2006, 02:09 PM

Try booting with the "pci=assign-busses" kernel option (e.g put it on the append line for your kernel in Lilo). Although I have a different CardBus controller, I had to use that to get PCMCIA/ CardBus cards to work under Slamd64 (unofficial Slackware port).

tangle · 04-28-2006, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cathectic

Try booting with the "pci=assign-busses" kernel option (e.g put it on the append line for your kernel in Lilo). Although I have a different CardBus controller, I had to use that to get PCMCIA/ CardBus cards to work under Slamd64 (unofficial Slackware port).

That did not work either. This is starting to get fustrating, lol.

tangle · 04-28-2006, 10:51 PM

Istuck an old Xircom card in the slot and it worked. So it is a driver issue. I'll have to do some more looking. Thanks

tangle · 05-05-2006, 07:59 AM

This seems to be a kernel issue with any 2.6.11+ kernel. I compiled 2.6.10 and the card worked.

tangle · 05-12-2006, 02:17 PM

With the stock 2.6.13 kernel I managed to get the cardbus card recognized.

First I installed (like I have done 20 times before, lol) the madwifi-ng driver (make and make install).

Second I added this to my /etc/lilo.conf.
append="irqpoll pci=assign-busses"

Third I added -f to the CARDMGR_OPTS= in the /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia file. Looks like this.
CARDMGR_OPTS=-f

Fourth, I removed port 0x800-0x8ff and port 0xc00-0xcff from the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.

Then I rebooted and it worked like a charm.