Re: 2.4.20pre11aa1 freezes after inserting a PCMCIA ethernet card

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@gams.at>]

Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul@blackstar.nl> wrote:
>> I have a Toshiba Satellite 2540 CDT laptop. It works with a stock 
>> Redat-6.2 2.2.14 kernel RPM (but not with the 2.2.19 Update RPM - 
>> symptoms are similar to below). The system is basically a RedHat-7.3 
>> with the 2.2.14 kernel from RedHat-6.2 and some newer RPMS from 
>> RawHide.
>> The Kernel (probably) freezes after inserting a Surecom PCMCIA 
>> Ethernet Card (EP-427/EP-427-T) since it always fsck'es the
>> filesystems during the next boot. If the laptop is booted without
>> the card, everything is working properly (though I do not do much
>> without the network card).
>> This happens if the PCMCIA card already is inserted during startup or 
>> if it is inserted later on (after a successful boot as described above).
>
>You may want to try to cut back on io ports probed by cardmgr.
>Almost the same happens on my box, when I don't cull some of the io ports
>in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. You can try commenting out some of the ports 
>there (I believe 0x800 was the culprit on my laptop, ymmv).

Hmm, 0x800 seems unused here (at least in /proc/ioports). But 
the pcnet_cs modules uses only 0x300-0x307 and 0x310-0x317, so I 
reduced (in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts) the range from 
"include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff" to 
"include port 0x300-0x320, port 0x1000-0x17ff" and it seems to work 
now - at least the laptop booted sucessfully and and there is a 
network conection.

Thanks for your help!

	Bernd

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