Re: RH9, PCMCIA cdrom install or rescue VAIO-R505TLK, PCGA-CD51

--- Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:39:54PM -0400, Matthew
> Miller wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:08:58PM -0700, Oisin C.
> Feeley wrote:
> > > another request for info: could you do an "lspci
> -vv" on the laptop and 
> > > see if the CardBus controller is a Ricoh 475 or
> 476?  Apparently there 
> > > may be a patch in Red Hat 9 to exclude these
> controllers. 
> > > thanks again,
> > It's actually a Ricoh 4c475.
> 
> Or at least, that's what lspci says. However, it
> also shows that the
> firewire controller is a "Ricoh Co Ltd R5C551", and
> according to this page
>
<http://ext.ricoh.co.jp/LSI/spec/assp/5c551/5c551-j.html>
> that's a "Super
> One Chip" which contains both a firewire controller
> and PCMCIA/Cardbus. It's
> possible that this is the actual chip and it's just
> emulating the 4c475.

Definitely?  I just looked at you website (v.nice CSS
b.t.w.) and you say it's a 5c475 on that -- I'm really
keen on being certain about this because I'm going to
be making a plea to RH and yours is the only
comparative information that I have which indicates
that card _may_ not be the problem.  Mine is a RL5c475
(rev 80).  However I apparently have a
separate/different firewire controller -- Texas
Instruments TSB43AA22 (PHY/Link integrated) (rev02)   

With RH7.3 and 8.0 my CardBus bridge gave a boot
message of:
"PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device
01:02.0.  Please try again using pci=biosirq"
 and yet worked quite happily with yenta_socket!

Now, according to Arjan van de Ven of RH, this is a
problem because with RH9 they specifically patched
against the Ricoh cards that generated this error
because some machines would lock up with it.  I found
the patch in the spec file and am going to go through
the whole rigamarole of undoing it, recompiling,
creating a new CD etc when I get a chance.
I'm also going to just try using the pcmcia-cs drivers
instead of the built-in kernel drivers as suggested by
this page: http://www.raw-io.com/pci_802.11b.html 
where someone was succesfully got their wireless card
working in one of these slots.

Again, thanks a lot for taking the time to share your
info with me.

cheers,
Oisin

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