[tlinux-users:07848] Re: problems with pcmcia

"Also sprach Jerry Kan <[email protected]>:"
> i just bougth a laptop toshiba (satellite M70-170 ) and its impossible
> to use linux on it,

I doubt it!  What does linux-laptops.org say about your model?

I see at least these listed, which may be relevant:

  Toshiba Satellite M70         Fedora Core 4    
  Toshiba Satellite M70         RedHat 9.0       
  Toshiba Satellite M70-142     SuSE 10.0       Italian
  Toshiba Satellite M70-165     SuSE 10.0       Spanish
  Toshiba Satellite M70-208


> the installation work well, but when booting on
> linux, it freeze on PCMCIA startup

Well, don't start pcmcia, then! Not now, anyway. Don't hit yourself in
the head if it hurts to do it - I.e. don't install pcmcia drivers now,
but instead do that later, much later, when you have had time to investigate
your machine a bit. I imagine that you maybe need to mask some i/o range
from the pcmcia bridge driver's reach, but likely the references above will
tell you, or looking at the /proc output will, or Dave Hinds will.
And check out the pcmcia howto at the laptops site for more help.


> what can i do ? i tried several distributions, like Korora, Fedora 2,4 and 5

Try another if you're not wanting to look hard at the machine
yourself - the people with the M70-something above seem happy enough
with SuSE 10.0, and they haven't put in any extra effort AFAICT ..

    Expansio'n  * 1 x Ranura para tarjetas PC Card tipo II y 2 x Ranuras
    de memoria 
    ...
    La instalacio'n de Suse Linux no pudo ser ma's fa'cil.
    ...
    Todo funciona correctamente,

and

    In breve: funziona tutto tranne:

 From what I see of his lspci output (what's yours), he has this
 controller:

   06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller

However, the guy with RH 9.0 on an M70 says he has this

  04:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
  (rev 01) 

which is pretty different. He doesn't mention his PCCARD system
thereafter. He does say:


  It seems to be a good idea to add pci=biosirq as an option to the
  kernel in grub.conf. If you don't, the kernel whinges a bit about not
  being able to assign all its interrupts.


Does yours say anything like that?

Ahhh. The guy with Fedora 4 and the M70 says

  It st[i]cks in [loading] pcmcia module. Give interactive boot (by
  pressing i) and skip pcmcia module.
  Then, as indicate in the above link, change
  include ... 0x800-0x8ff... with
  include ... 0x810-0x8ff.
  in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts

So yes, you might want to mask off an extra 16 bytes of i/o address
space from the pcmcia driver. You should be able to see it being used?
Check /proc/whatever? ports? io?

He says

     I found very good information on the following link:
     Toshiba Japan M60
     http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/pc/memo2/satM60.htm

Peter


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> Jerry
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