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Idea: Bug in fcpcmcia_cs.c for FRITZ!Card pcmcia from AVM 

Forum: Unsupported PCMCIA Devices
Re: Question: AVM Fritz ISDN Card troubles. (Andreas Fink)
Re: Agree: I have the same problem! Opened up incident with manufacturer (Marc Beuchat)
Re: More: odd IO request: base 0300 align 0020 (Marc Beuchat)
Date: 2000, Aug 27
From: Marc Beuchat mbeuchat

I did some debugging of the source code and discovered that the following:

fcpcmcia_cs: sets up the request io structure for Port1.
fcpcmcia_cs: calls CardServices() with function RequestIO and request io structure. 
cs: function RequestIO calls request_io() with the request info.
cs: request_io() calls alloc_io_space() for Port1. This is when the "odd io request" message is generated.  However the function returns normally.
cs: request_io() calls alloc_io_space() for Port2. This calls ends with an error.

request_io() calls alloc_io_space() for Port2 since fcpcmcia_cs initializes the socket structures for both ports (see line 164 and 165 of the source code in function fcpcmcia_attach). However, when it calls CardServices() with function RequestIO, it does not specify the base address for Port 2, hence the error.

To fix the problem, I commented out lines 164 and 165 in fcpcmcia_cs.c:

/*
  link->io.NumPorts2 = 16
  link->io.Attributes2 = IO_DATA_PATH_WIDTH_16
*/

With this change, the card configures correctly. Unfortunately I do not have access to an ISDN line today to test if the card actually works!! I will check this tomorrow and post the results.

I will also ask AVM support to confirm if the use of Port2 is necessary or if this is a bug. Let's see!

Marc

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1. Re: Idea: Bug in fcpcmcia_cs.c for FRITZ!Card pcmcia from AVM by Andreas Fink, 2000, Aug 27
(_ Sad: Patch didnt work for me by Andreas Fink, 2000, Aug 30
(_ Feedback: Re: Patch didnt work for me by Marc Beuchat, 2000, Aug 31

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