Re: The Mini-PCI again
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Scott L. Burson wrote: > I have a mini-PCI card in my Inspiron 8100, which had the symptom you've > seen before, that with the kernel driver it was necessary to boot Windows > first to initialize the card. I tried your driver, but without success. What driver version did you try? What is the detection message? I thought that this was fixed with a write to one of the undocumented Window 0 registers. The fix was implemented in 0.99Xc for 3c1556B-5, subsystem ID 0x10b7 0x6556 > I reviewed the previous discussion on this list about the mini-PCI card, and > hacked the same change (writing 0x0900 to window 0 register 0) into the > kernel driver at what seemed like the right place. This worked! So I am up > and running, but I thought you might want to know that your driver didn't > work for me. Perhap you have a new or different PCI ID. > vortex-diag.c:v2.14 12/28/2002 Donald Becker ([email protected]) > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html > Index #1: Found a 3c566 Laptop Tornado adapter at 0xe800. ... > OEM Station address 00:04:76:4D:D7:B8 (used as the ethernet address). > Device ID 6056, Manufacturer ID 6d50. Is this the ID that shows up? This ID does _NOT_ have the WN0_XCVR_PWR flag used to enable the Window 0 setting. I suspect that only some revisions of the board need this... Please report back if this is the case. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex