Appeal to Geekish Authority

[unixronin]

I seek a geek with the fu of PC card support under Linux.

Specifically, I have here a Thinkpad 600E, model 2645-3AU.  It has a very recent and almost completely stock Slackware 11 install, except for a 2.6.20 kernel and pcmciautils 0.14.  I have also a Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 NIC, and a Linksys Wireless-G NIC.  The laptop has two TI PCI1251A CardBus bridges, both of which show up in lspci output.

Unfortunately, I can't get the cards to work in the slots.  Under kernel 2.4, cardmgr announced that it was managing two slots, then said it couldn't do so because of resource conflicts.  (However, the cards were visible to lspci when inserted.)  using kernel 2.6, all the services appear to be running, but inserting a card yields only the following kernel message:

llioness kernel: cs: pcmcia_socket1: cardbus cards are not supported

I'm pretty certain I enabled and properly configured every PCMCIA and CardBus related option in the kernel, including enabling PCI hotplug.  Can anyone with experience at having done this before give me any pointers?  This is the first time I've tried to deal with PCMCIA under Linux, and I don't really know enough about what I'm doing to know how to debug it.  I've been able to find exactly two relevant hits with a web search, and neither was helpful.  (In fact, one was someone having exactly the same problem with a SuSE install on a Thinkpad 600E, who as far as I can see never got an answer.)

Comments

[attutle.livejournal.com]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=440706 (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=440706) says:
"With the stock 2.6.13 kernel I managed to get the cardbus card recognized.

First I installed (like I have done 20 times before, lol) the madwifi-ng driver (make and make install).

Second I added this to my /etc/lilo.conf.
append="irqpoll pci=assign-busses"

Third I added -f to the CARDMGR_OPTS= in the /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia file. Looks like this.
CARDMGR_OPTS=-f

Fourth, I removed port 0x800-0x8ff and port 0xc00-0xcff from the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.

Then I rebooted and it worked like a charm."

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Just tried all that. No joy....

DOH!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Belay that! Forgot to rerun lilo.

CardBus subsystem is now online, detecting and identifying cards.

Next, to get the network interfaces up .....

Re: DOH!

[attutle.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna stop watching this thread then. Open a new post if you run into trouble. ;-)