Re: Xircom CardBus RBE-100 "No MII transceiver found"

[Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>]

Hi Federico,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:16:23 +0800 (PHT), Federico Sevilla III <jijo@leathercollection.ph> wrote:

> I'm using 2.4.8-pre3, with pcmcia-cs 3.1.27 (no pcmcia modules from the
> pcmcia package, all from the kernel). I have support for CardBus built in.
> I've tried compiling support for my Xircom CardBus RBE-100 into the kernel
> and as a module. It just won't work. 

I was the last one doing work on the xircom_tulip_cb driver, although none
of the changes that got into 2.4.7 should affect the driver's behavior. I
only removed dead code...

Anyway, can you try a 2.4.6 kernel (which doesn't have my changes), and see
if the card works?

> cs: cb_alloc(bus 5): vendor 0x115d, device 0x0003
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(1000-fff) for 05:00.0

The above sounds like the real trouble. Can you run a 'lspci -vv' and
mail the section corresponding to the 05:00.0 device to the list?

> xircom_tulip_cb.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@scyld.com (modified by danilo@cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
> xircom(05:00.0): ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!
> eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0x1000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 9.

We really can't talk to the card, which is not very surprising considering
that the PCI resource 0 couldn't be allocated. 

Thanks,
Ion

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