Subject: Re: 3.0 pcmcia regressions?
To: Christos Zoulas <>
From: John Nemeth <>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/28/2005 00:30:11
On Apr 14,  6:26pm, Christos Zoulas wrote:
} In article <>,
} John Nemeth <> wrote:
} >     Are there known cardbus/pcmcia regressions in 3.0?  I recently
} >upgraded my laptop and I just went through and tested all my cards.  The
} >Cisco Aironet 350, 3Com 3C589D, and IBM Token Ring (which is documented
} >in GENERIC as not working with cardbus bridges) adapters all worked.
} >However, the US Robotics XJ/CC1336 modem and Adaptec 1460D SCSI
} >adapter don't.  In the case of the modem, when I cu to it, I don't
} >get any response to commands.  In the case of the SCSI adapter, it prints
} >"aic0: unable to detect chip!"
} Yes, there is a problem and there is a patch to fix it. The patch works
} around the problem, but it is not entirely correct. Setting cfe->iomask = 0;
} does the trick, but the problem is really in the way we allocate regions.

     And, where does this setting go?

}-- End of excerpt from Christos Zoulas