PCMCIA Troubles

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Wed Jan 29 00:31:14 EST 2003


On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 12:45 , Finn Blucher wrote:

> Okay,
> Trying to get pcmcia working on my ASUS L2000B laptop. Upon inserting 
> any one of a number of pcmcia card I get the following error in dmesg:
>
> cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0xffff, device 0xffff
> PCI: device 02:00.0 has unknown header type 7f, ignoring.

I had exactly the same problem.  The only solution I could find was to 
use Linux 2.2.20 kernel instead (don't know about earlier 2.2.x kernels, 
and didn't try any 2.5.x kernels either).

> The laptop seems to keep working fine, lspci just seems to be unhappy, 
> even after you remove the pcmcia card.

IIRC, if you look in /proc/bus/pci after inserting the card, you'll see 
duplicate directory entries (in my case, I saw a duplicate device 02 on 
the first PC Card interface).

My previous message on this subject had no response:
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/linux/2002-December/014711.html

> Not really sure where to go from hear. Had a few pokes around on 
> Google. By the way, works fine under windows, damn it.

The only "solution" I came up with was to run a 2.2 kernel instead of a 
2.4 kernel.  I'd love to hear from you if you have any more luck than I 
did.

HTH
Alex

"We never have definite knowledge of what needs to be done until we're 
finished and discover how wrong we were."
   -- Dan Burke and Alan Morrison, "Business @ The Speed Of Stupid"
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