I recently acquired an old toshiba satelite 2505CDS laptop. It has 2 pcmcia ports as so (ripped directly from the toshiba specs pdf): "

Two Stacked PC Card Slots: Holds two - 5mm PC Cards Type II or one - 10.5mm PC Card Type III.

Support Standards: Supports 32-bit, 3.3V PC CardBus cards and 16-bit, 5.0V PC card standards"

I was reading that the bios affects the configuration of the slots so i had three options available for controller mode: Auto-Selected, PCIC Compatible, and CardBus/16-bit

The carbus ports dont show up for PCIC Compatible

The output of lspci -v for Auto-Selected:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev a0)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: stepping, medium devsel
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]

00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 21)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ffe0 [size=32]

00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=14, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=15, subordinate=15, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Billionton Systems Inc: Unknown device 0200
Flags: medium devsel
I/O ports at 4800 [size=256]
Memory at 11000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

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Here's the output for PCIC-Compatable:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev a0)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: stepping, medium devsel
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]

00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 21)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ffe0 [size=32]


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And here's Cardbus/16-bit

00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev a0)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65555 HiQVPro (rev c6) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: stepping, medium devsel
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]

00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 21)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ffe0 [size=32]

00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=14, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=15, subordinate=15, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Billionton Systems Inc: Unknown device 0200
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4800 [size=256]
Memory at 11000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2



I am not sure if any of these are the right configuration. Slackware selects the pcmcia driver through probing so i'm not sure which it is using. Please help, im not sure whats going on.

I just tried out knoppix and doing a lspci -v came up with the same "unknown device 0001" thing. Yet my cardbus ethernet card worked fine. I dont know what's going on.

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