Sad: System hangs when starting pcmcia service... 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 2000, Mar 12
From: Eric Maes <eric.maes@wol.be>

Hi, I just downloaded version 3.1.12 of the pcmcia drivers and compiled it without a problem on my RedHat 6.1 system running kernel 2.2.12-20. I am using the PCMCIA-ISA adapter that came with my Webgear Aviator card. When I start the pcmcia service, my system completely hangs. First I thought this might be an IRQ issue, so I removed my SCSI adapter card (which I was not using anyway at the moment) and forced the driver to only probe for IRQ 12 which the card used (PCIC_OPTS='irq_list=12"), but the sysem still hangs. Here is part of /var/adm/messages (this still shows the original output (before I forced the IRQ). When my system hang, it probably trashed the messages file and I had to run fsck upon reboot... Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.12 Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 E DT 1999 Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfd820 Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: Ricoh RF5C296/396 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 of s 0x00 Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: host opts [0]: none Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,7,9 polling interval = 1000 ms Mar 12 17:32:48 bilbo cardmgr[1107]: starting, version is 3.1.12 This is what probe shows: PCI bridge probe: not found. Intel PCIC probe: i82365sl B step found, 1 sockets. cat ioports: 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0300-031f : NE2000 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 6800-683f : es1370 f000-f007 : ide0 f008-f00f : ide1 Needless to say that much to my frustration, the installation of these cards went without a problem when I booted this system in NT mode.... Thanks for your help - Eric

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Not interrupts: either IO ports or memory Re: Sad: System hangs when starting pcmcia service... (Eric Maes) Date: 2000, Mar 13 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

There are some very detailed instructions for diagnosing system hangs in the PCMCIA-HOWTO. The most important thing is to determine exactly when the hang is happening. Interrupts are not the problem, because even before you forced the interrupt setting, the interrupt probe completed fine (otherwise you would not have seen those system log messages). The next event that happens during the startup sequence is the IO port probe. After that, if a card is present in the adapter, the memory probe is done. So, you need to determine if the lockup depends on whether or not the Webgear card is in the slot. If it only happens with the card in the slot, it is a memory probe failure, and you need to restrict the low memory window (the 0xc0000-0xfffff window in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts). If it happens whether or not a card is present, then you need to work on the IO port windows in the config.opts file. It is possible the problem would also go away if you recompiled PCMCIA with "PnP BIOS support" switched on, since that gives better rules for automatic resource allocation. -- Dave

Feedback: Some progress... Re: Not interrupts: either IO ports or memory (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Mar 14 From: Eric Maes <eric.maes@wol.be>

David, Thanks for the tips. I have recompiled the package with Pnp bt that did not seem to make much difference. I then have experimented somewhat with ioport and memory ranges and even though I really did not know what I was doing, succeeded in getting to start the pcmcia service (I think). This is what I now see /var/log when starting up pcmcia: Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.12 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 E DT 1999 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] [pnp] Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfd820 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fb960 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:b988, ds eg at f0000 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: Ricoh RF5C296/396 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 of s 0x00 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: host opts [0]: none Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 9,12 polling interval = 1 000 ms Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo cardmgr[1086]: starting, version is 3.1.12 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo cardmgr[1086]: watching 1 sockets Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x1300: excluding 0x1300- 0x1307 Mar 14 20:17:41 bilbo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0300-0x0370: clean. Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo cardmgr[1086]: initializing socket 0 Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0e0000-0x0effff: clean. Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo cardmgr[1086]: socket 0: RayLink PC Card WLAN Adapter Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo cardmgr[1086]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/p cmcia/ray_cs.o' Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo kernel: ray_cs Detected: WebGear PC Card WLAN Adapter Vers ion 4.88 Jan 1999 Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo kernel: eth1: RayLink, irq 12, hw_addr 00:00:F1:11:70:4E Mar 14 20:17:43 bilbo cardmgr[1086]: executing: './network start eth1' At this point, my machine still worked! However when I try to bring up the interface either by running ifconfig by hand, or by customizing network.opts, I can just manage to enter a couple of commands after which my machine hangs... When I rebooted the machine with a non default network.opts and having set pc_debug=3 in /etc/pcmcia/ray_cs.opts, at the point where the pcmcia service was started, my console was flooded with messages: ray_dev_start_xmit busy At which point I had to reboot in single user mode to disable pcmcia at boot... So now I don't know whether I have a pcmcia or a Webgear problem... Thanks for your help - Eric

Ok: OK now! Re: Feedback: Some progress... (Eric Maes) Date: 2000, Mar 15 From: Eric Maes <eric.maes@wol.be>

David, I got the latest beta (which corrects a ray_cs bug) from the ftp site as you suggested, compiled, installed and now I seem to have a working system! The only thing to do now is setup my network... Thanks a lot for your help, much appreciated. Cheers - Eric

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