Pccard problem with NE2000 clone

[Thomas Wintergerst]

Hello Daniel,

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently obtained a Toshiba Satellite 2540CDS and I planned to use an 
> NE2000 clone PCMCIA card for network access. This machine has a ToPIC95B 
> bridge in it. Since that machine has no network access I thought I'd try
> it in my main work laptop (Inspiron 8600 with a TI4510 bridge) and it
> has very similar symptoms.
> 
> I get the following dmesg output (with debugging sysctls cranked up) when
> I insert it.
> 
[...]
> Mar 18 12:32:28 inchoate kernel: pcib2: pccard0 requested I/O range 0xd000-0xefff: in range
> Mar 18 12:32:28 inchoate kernel: cbb_pcic_socket_enable:
> Mar 18 12:32:28 inchoate kernel: cbb0: cbb_power: 0V
> Mar 18 12:32:28 inchoate kernel: cbb0: cbb_power: 5V
> Mar 18 12:32:28 inchoate kernel: pcib2: pccard0 requested memory range 0xf6000000-0xfbffffff: good
> Mar 18 12:32:28 inchoate kernel: pccard0: ccr_res == f6001000-f60013ff, base=3f8
[...]

This looks like a similar problem I had with an AVM B1 PCMCIA ISDN 
controller. I think the "reset" with power down and up again leads to an 
unoperable card. In my situation unloading and reloading the driver let 
the card work.

I made some change to the pccard driver code for testing and without the 
reset everyging was O.K. But with 5.3-STABLE the problem seems to be 
solved, according to a friend of mine.

Maybe updating to 5.3-STABLE also solves Your problem.

-- 

Gruss,

Thomas Wintergerst