| 08:30:55 | mmatten_ | prpplague_: alive now |
| 15:19:30 | prpplague_ | mmatten: where seletz this morning? |
| 15:26:19 | mmatten | he's in munich all day |
| 15:26:30 | mmatten | big system3 powwow |
| 15:27:36 | mmatten | grmbl... brb -> init 6 |
| 15:33:17 | mmatten | back |
| 15:34:49 | prpplague_ | front |
| 15:35:40 | mmatten | prpplague_: if you have any news concerning the boards/modules i can pass them to him... i don't know whether he comes here tonight but he can contact you from home as well |
| 15:37:09 | prpplague_ | mmatten: nothing special, i was just wondering how many units we needed to comit to on the contract |
| 15:37:35 | prpplague_ | mmatten: i can wait till he gets back from his "pub crawl" |
| 15:37:37 | prpplague_ | lol |
| 15:37:51 | mmatten | ;) |
| 15:41:27 | mmatten | you don't possibly know where i can get info about pcmcia troubleshooting (except in the official faq, which doesn't apply to my symptomes)? |
| 15:51:21 | prpplague_ | pcmcia is a problem as far as docs |
| 15:51:26 | prpplague_ | IMHO |
| 15:51:41 | prpplague_ | i ordered a book off of amazon about pcmcia development |
| 15:53:21 | mmatten | it's not even about development right now (altho thats what it aims at) but as soon as i insert any pcmcia card into the slot my sys freezes, when i remove it it gets back to normal. and yes i receive the nice beep beep that says init. and config. worked out.... |
| 15:54:45 | prpplague_ | what kinda card? |
| 15:56:49 | mmatten | well actually it's a compactflash-pcmcia adaptor with a ne2000 comp. network module in it |
| 15:58:57 | prpplague_ | mmatten: when inserted the system stop responing, and when you remove it, it returns to life? |
| 15:59:08 | mmatten | exactly |
| 16:00:39 | prpplague_ | mmatten: my two guesses would be a service related to starting the card is failing and is waiting for a timeout, or you have some network config thats creating an is |
| 16:00:57 | prpplague_ | are you connecting to the unit via rs-232, or via ppp? |
| 16:03:41 | mmatten | i got an pci card with pcmcia adaptor on it, i'm supposed to write a (kinda) generic testing app for pcmcia that will be extended for a not-yet delivered hardware |
| 16:04:34 | mmatten | just generic linux trouble :< not really meant for THIS channel usually, but i don't know my way round openprojects too well so far |
| 16:16:00 | mmatten | shutting down sys now... maybe it doesn't like hotswap after all (altho it should) |
| 16:32:32 | erikm | mmatten: probably a PCI card with a TI cardbus/pcmcia bridge |
| 16:35:18 | erikm | mmatten: fixed in recent kernel, and otherwise easy to fix for unknown TI bridges |
| 16:35:45 | erikm | mmatten: (recent kernel == recent 2.4 kernel) |
| 16:35:45 | mmatten | PCI to PCMCIA host bridge |
| 16:35:56 | mmatten | hmm i got 2.4.10 kernel running |
| 16:36:03 | mmatten | so it _should_ work |
| 16:36:14 | erikm | mmatten: no, that's probably a cardbus bridge |
| 16:36:53 | erikm | mmatten: but that doesn't matter |
| 16:37:01 | mmatten | could be, the specs in the manual lack detail |
| 16:37:13 | erikm | mmatten: you can check it with lspci |
| 16:37:21 | erikm | my laptop says: |
| 16:37:29 | erikm | 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 |
| 16:38:12 | erikm | anyway, in the kernel you should NOT select the intel PCMCIA bridge, but the cardbus (aka yenta) driver |
| 16:38:18 | mmatten | ok you're right 00:0e.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80) |
| 16:38:32 | erikm | that's what my previous laptop had |
| 16:38:41 | erikm | works like a charm with the cardbus driver |
| 16:39:05 | erikm | oh, and be sure to compile the driver directly into the kernel, not as a module |
| 16:39:14 | mmatten | hmm... thats definetly worth a try |
| 16:39:14 | erikm | helps to solve IRQ routing problems |
| 16:40:21 | mmatten | thanks, i was totally out of ideas :) |
| 16:41:51 | erikm | mmatten: this is how your kernel config file should look like: |
| 16:41:56 | erikm | CONFIG_PCMCIA=y |
| 16:41:56 | erikm | CONFIG_CARDBUS=y |
| 16:41:56 | erikm | # CONFIG_I82092 is not set |
| 16:41:56 | erikm | # CONFIG_I82365 is not set |
| 16:41:57 | erikm | # CONFIG_TCIC is not set |
| 16:44:09 | mmatten | ok thats going to be the first thing to try tomorrow, have to leave for an appointment now. thanks for the help, i wasted the whole afternoon on this :< |
| 16:44:36 | erikm | np |