Still problems with PCMCIA in 2.5.72

From: Wiktor Wodecki (wodecki@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 03:46:23 EST


Hello,

there are still issues with pcmcia in 2.5 series. Although the oopses on
insert/remove from 1 month ago disappeared, cards still don't get
detected all the time. I started too see this behaviou I think after
2.5.69-bk9.
I have a TI PCI1450 cardbus bridge in my Thinkpad and cards get detected
non-deterministically (at least for me).
One time the card is detected on initial insert, the other time on the
second one and if it's not detected by then I can reboot my machine,
since it wont find it anyway (I tried 10 inserts/removes). I never made
it work (even before) to get it detected and set up on boot, but I guess
that relates to my debian unstable system..I think there's something
wicked..

here are some syslog snipplets:

Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x377 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Jun 17 22:25:19 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Jun 17 22:25:25 voyager kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:26 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:30 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:35 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:39 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:43 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:46 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 1: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:25:49 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:52 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:58 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 0: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:25:58 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:25:58 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items
Jun 17 22:25:59 voyager kernel: pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net
address for io base 0x300
Jun 17 22:25:59 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
No such device
Jun 17 22:26:07 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe -r pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:26:09 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 0: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:26:09 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:26:09 voyager cardmgr[186]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
No such device

...

rebooting

...
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x377 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Jun 17 22:30:32 voyager kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
...
Jun 17 22:30:42 voyager cardmgr[186]: socket 0: D-Link DFE-670-TXD Fast
Ethernet
Jun 17 22:30:42 voyager kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Jun 17 22:30:42 voyager cardmgr[186]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
Jun 17 22:30:43 voyager kernel: eth0: NE2000 (DL10022 rev 30): io 0x300,
irq 3, hw_addr 00:40:05:87:DA:69

It also seems that the chance of getting the disk into system is to
insert it after the system switched to init 2 but before the login
prompt appears. There are no strange services loaded at any time, so I
have no idea what might change later on.

The system:
Gnu C 2.95.4
Gnu make 3.80
util-linux 2.11z
mount 2.11z
e2fsprogs 1.34-WIP
pcmcia-cs 3.2.2
PPP 2.4.1
isdn4k-utils 3.2p3
Linux C Library 2.3.1
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.1
Procps 3.1.9
Net-tools 1.60
Console-tools 0.2.3
Sh-utils 5.0
Modules Loaded pcnet_cs 8390 crc32 ehci_hcd

my .config:
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE=y
CONFIG_X86_MSR=y
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y
CONFIG_EDD=y
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_ICH=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_YENTA=y
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
CONFIG_I82092=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_NAMES=y
CONFIG_ISAPNP=y
CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_REPORT_LUNS=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_INET_ECN=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_DSCP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPFILTER=m
CONFIG_IPV6_SCTP__=y
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CSZ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_GRED=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_DSMARK=m
CONFIG_NET_QOS=y
CONFIG_NET_ESTIMATOR=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE4=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_FW=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP6=m
CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK=y
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=m
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m
CONFIG_PPPOE=m
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
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CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y
CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PCNET=m
CONFIG_IRDA=y
CONFIG_IRLAN=m
CONFIG_IRNET=m
CONFIG_IRCOMM=y
CONFIG_IRTTY_SIR=y
CONFIG_IRPORT_SIR=y
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_BUSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y
CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS=m
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp437"
CONFIG_CIFS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-15"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH=y
CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ACM=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=m
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
CONFIG_HID_FF=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_X86_EXTRA_IRQS=y
CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=m
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT=y

-- 
Regards,

Wiktor Wodecki


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