From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Leonardo Pereira Santos To: Linuxppc embedded Subject: Card Services in a FADS850SAR board Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:26:07 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200211121926.09433.lsantos@pd3.com.br> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I know, I know, the FADS board is a piece of c**p but it is the only card I will have for some time now I i stuck with it :( . Ok, I trying to make the boad's PCMCIA connector work. I'm using a recent kernel (2.4.20-pre11) in a MPC850 processor, and the PCMCIA card is a WiFi card. First I compiled the kernel with built-in PCMCIA support and modules for the card's drivers. The first strange thing is that the PCMCIA interrupt generates a sig 11 error (kernel accessed bad area). But if I boot (initialize Card Services) with the board already connected, the 8xx module works fine. So I load up the three driver modules I need (hermes, orinoco, orinoco_cs), but when I do a lsmod, the orinoco_cs is listed as unused. Shouldn't the cs driver be used by Card Services? In Paul J. Lucas' page about a PCMCIA in a PowerBook there is a fine "dummies guide" to make it work. I followed it but CS' cardmanager doesn't load up the drivers, although it identifies my card. In Paul's page, he says CS versions prior to 3.1.27 don't work out-of-the-box with a powerpc, and the kernel's version is 3.1.22. So I went to CS' HP, downloaded and complied it to my kernel. After starting CS with a insmod, when I tried to load the socked driver to the 8xx powerpc (m8xx_pcmcia) , it generates a sig 11 error in the middle of its initialization. As a desperate measure, I trying to integrate CS' new code (3.2.3) in the kernel, but that gives me a very strange compilation error in re resource management code. After all this, my questions are: Should I tell my boss to give me a new board RIGHT NOW? If there is hope of making it work on my card, why the orinoco_cs module is unused? I got the powerpc kernel in bitkeeper, there is another kernel with a more recent version of CS? Am I making something really stupid compiling CS? I justo follow its Configure script. Now the question that I fear: There is need of a ISA bus? If yes, where do I configure it, as there isn't any option in the general setup menu in the kernel config. I'm configuring my kernel to support: - hot plugable devies, - CardBus, - 8xx support The rest is the module support to my WiFi card. Sorry for the long mail. I'd be very grateful if anyoune could give me any information. Thanks a lot! - -- "All things are ready, if our minds be so" The Life Of King Henry V - William Sharespeare Leonardo Pereira Santos Engenheiro de Projetos PD3 Tecnologia av. Pará 330/202 (51) 3337 1237 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/