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Old 03-18-2004, 02:02 PM   #1
bpland
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pcmcia Token-Ring resource error - any ideas?


Hello Everyone,

Is anyone able to help me out with getting a pcmcia auto 16/4 token-ring card working?

I'm running slackware 9.1 with 2.4.25 with the latest pcmcia package. When the system boots cardmgr picks up the card as it should

"cardmgr[57]: socket 0: IBM Token Ring Adapter"

Then I get this

"ibmtr_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use"

Now I've read the TR howto and the pcmcia howto and I'm aware I can adjust the mmiobase and the srambase in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts but for the life of me I just can't get it to work

A lsmod shows the module loaded and I get the beep from the laptop like it's trying to open the adapter but ifconfig is blank (except for lo) and from the "Resource in use" message I know it's not working. I have the card working on the windows side and I have the memory address I used there to avoid conflicts but i'm not sure how to translate those address over to what I can place in my

"modprobe ibmtr_ca mmiobase=xxx srambase=xxx"

Maybe someone could help me understand how I should choose my memory range based on my /proc/iomem output. I kinda know how to read this and all but i'm still lost.

00000000-0009efff : System RAM
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
000d0000-000d0fff : card services
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-017fffff : System RAM
00100000-002cf05a : Kernel code
002cf05b-00369b83 : Kernel data
c0000000-c0ffffff : Cirrus Logic GD 7543 [Viking]
c1000000-c1ffffff : Cirrus Logic GD 7543 [Viking]

in the token ring howto in section (3.1.7.11) it explains that if i play around in /etc/pcmcia with config.opts that I should be able to pick a 16 or 64 k range (not sure which) to get it to load.

I just can't tell where the conflict is that is causing the "Resource in use message"

The line I'm playing with in that file is the
module "ibmtr_cs" opts "mmiobase=xxxxx srambase=xxxx"
But maybe it's the IO or irq I just can't tell where the problem is. "cardctl" does identify the card correctly and I tried another card (same type) and still have the same problem.

Well I hope someone out there can help me out I’m coming up on 3 days trying to get this dumb thing to work. Thanks in advance for any reply or suggestions.

Regards,
Bobby
 
  


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