Whatever happened to /etc/pcmcia/config in FC-5?

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 17:16:09 UTC 2006


Hrmm, I might be hitting this too, but I'm not sure.

On 4/16/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> I notice that this file has disappeared in FC-5.
> Where does the machine look now for info on the appropriate driver?
>
> I upgraded from FC-4 to FC-5 on one machine,
> and the pcmcia card was not found until I replaced the config file.

Can you send me a copy of that config file (off list), so that I could
try that too?

> On the other hand a machine running a new FC-5 installation
> seems fine without the config file.
>
> Is this change documented somewhere?

I posted about this yesterday to this list, but no one has replied (yet):
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg03734.html

I read over the info from here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html#knownproblems
CardBus (sometimes also PCMCIA) cards not found

lspci on my notebook looks like this:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset
Graphics Controller]
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 02)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

lspci  -v | grep subordinate
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
        Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176

If i'm interpretting this correctly, then things look to be ok. 
However, there is the following warning for bus 3:

dmesg | grep assign
PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) may be hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02)
(try 'pci=assign-busses')

At this point, I'm just confused and frustrated because while my
pcmcia wifi cards both seem to get detected when inserted, they're not
connecting to the network properly 99% of the time, and this problem
didn't exist until I upgraded from FC4 to FC5.

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