[tlinux-users:07849] Re: problems with pcmcia

Debian lets you choose whether you want to enable PCMCIA or not during
installation (you can enable it later on if you need it).  I guess
Ubunto, which
is based on the former distro, does it as well (you may even try the
live CD).
[]s monaco
> "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
>
>
>   
>> Jerry
>>
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