Question: pcmcia-3.1.10 - Xircom CE3B-100 on Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT Linux kernel 2.0.37 - can't ping other machines 

Forum: PCMCIA on Toshiba laptops
Date: 2000, Feb 02
From: Paulo Rodrigues paulor

Hi I looked at all the documentation i found but no mention of problems with such an old kernel; pcmcia compiles and works perfectly on a 2.2.12 kernel; the lights come on and i can ping normally other machines; however, when compiling the same package for the 2.0.37 kernel, make all fails at pnp_bios.c if i config'd it with pnpbios resource checking; i dont think 2.0.37 includes pnp support anyway, but have no idea of the impact not including pnp checking may have... i ran make config again, left pnp out, make all and make install went ok, reviewed /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. then i did /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia start (slackware) and it didnt complain, everything detected ok (i think). but, ping wont work... also, after that, i cant remove the modules, /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop complains that the modules are in use... anyone have any ideas? thanks paulo

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Compare system log messages? Re: Question: pcmcia-3.1.10 - Xircom CE3B-100 on Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT Linux kernel 2.0.37 - can't ping other machines (Paulo Rodrigues) Date: 2000, Feb 02 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

Can you compare the PCMCIA system log messages under the 2.2.12 kernel with the 2.0.37 messages? It could be as simple as an interrupt conflict, where the 2.2.12/PNP setup automatically skipped the bad interrupt, but the 2.0.37/no-PNP setup can't figure that out on its own. Why not just use the 2.2.12 kernel? -- Dave

Feedback: Untitled Re: Compare system log messages? (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Feb 03 From: Paulo Rodrigues paulor

Hi david, thanks for such a quick reply; i need an old 2.0.XX kernel so i can run oracle application server; i looked at logs and there is a difference, under 2.2.12 host options reports [pci irq 11] but under 2.0.37 it says [no pci irq]; is there a way to force it to use irq 11? or is it more complicated than this? thanks for your interest paulo

That part should not matter Re: Feedback: Untitled (Paulo Rodrigues) Date: 2000, Feb 03 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

The PCI interrupt assignment should not make a difference in this case. I would be more interested in whether the CE3B card is configured exactly the same in both cases (i.e., same interrupt and same IO port range). -- Dave

Ok: It didn't - but works now: removed apm support from the kernel Re: That part should not matter (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Feb 04 From: Paulo Rodrigues paulor

Hello David; indeed it didn't matter: the card had the same configuration under both kernels, irq 5 io 0x300; apart from the difference on that pci irq, there wasn't much in logs i could point at. But, looking at configured options, there was [pci] [cardbus] [apm] [pnp] under 2.2.12 and [pci] [cardbus] [apm] under 2.0.37; i rebuilt the kernel without apm support (can't poweroff on shutdown, but thats it :) and recompiled pcmcia: lo and behold, it works! thanks a million, David, and i hope this will benefit some one else (not likely, but...) cheers paulo

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