Question: Orinoco/WaveLan ISA adapter -- problems on 486 w/2.0.35 kernel 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 2000, Jul 13
From: David D. Johnson ddj

I bought a pair of 11mb/s pc cards and an ISA adapter, and have had some problems getting the thing set up on the old system I'm using as my firewall. The system is a 486 DX/66 with 64MB ram. I have aha 1542b scsi controller, two ne200 clone NIC cards, crappy VGA, etc. The system was originally slackware, with the kernel at 2.0.35. The BIOS is AMD, and I have the feeling it doesn't support PnP. This morning I built pcmcia-cs-3.1.15 and plugged in the card. When I did make install, the etc/install-etc script hung the system when it called ../cardmgr/probe. After hitting reset and waiting forever for it to check the disks, I grabbed the pcmcia-cs-3.1.18 and built that. This time I did chmod -x on cardmgr/probe before doing the make install, and things completed. I checked lsmod, and the i82365 and ds modules were loaded. Then I did some reading here, and saw a mention of isapnp and pnpdump, so of course I had to try them out. Pnpdump also hung the system dead. Until I get home to reboot, that's where things stand. My questions: 0) Is there a search facility for HyperNews? 1) Is anyone up and running with similarly antiquated HW/SW? 2) Can I set things up without running probe? 3) Should I pack the cards up and send them back? Thanks, -- ddj Dave Johnson ddj@brown.edu

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"probe" isn't required for anything Re: Question: Orinoco/WaveLan ISA adapter -- problems on 486 w/2.0.35 kernel (David D. Johnson) Date: 2000, Jul 13 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

Do you happen to know if any of your ISA hardware is likely to conflict with the PCMCIA card reader at IO address 0x3e0? > I checked lsmod, and the i82365 and ds modules were loaded. If the i82365 module is loaded, check "dmesg" to see what it had to say about your card reader. The only purpose for running "probe" is to identify your PCMCIA card reader, but if you already know the i82365 driver is working, then that is moot. -- Dave

Ok: Re: "probe" isn't required for anything Re: "probe" isn't required for anything (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Jul 13 From: David D. Johnson ddj

David Hinds wrote: > Do you happen to know if any of your ISA hardware is likely to > conflict with the PCMCIA card reader at IO address 0x3e0? It looks clean -- net cards at 0240/0340, scsi at 330, and vga at 3c0. The i82365 showed up at 03e2/03e3. Here is the dmesg output: ---------------- Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.18 kernel build: 2.0.35 #14 Thu May 6 09:05:12 EDT 1999 options: [pci] [apm] Intel PCIC probe: Vadem VG-469 rev 00 ISA host opts [0]: none host opts [1]: none ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10,12 status change on irq 10 cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding 0x1c8-0x1cf 0x200-0x207 0x240-0x25f 0x340-0x34f 0x378-0x37f cs: IO port probe 0x0a20-0x0a27: clean. cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: excluding 0xdc000-0xddfff cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xc7fff ---------------- So, this looks ok to me.... Time to poke at the PC card. Thanks for the help, -- ddj

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