cardbus/pcmcia under fedora core 4

[Storm]

Dominik Brodowski wrote:

>Also try out passing reserve=0x20000000,0x10000000 to the kernel
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hi dominik,

thanks for the advice! i have done as you suggested and: voila! fedora 
won't freeze anymore when calling up cardmgr and when starting up 
pcmcia-services during boot. however, there still seems to be somewhat 
of a problem, since the pci hotplug system does not recognize card 
insertion events. when i insert my wireless network card (netgear wg511 
v3.0, 32-bit CardBus Card), the system won't beep, that a card has been 
inserted.

output of /var/log/messages during insertion of the card is:
Jul  8 08:53:19 storm kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
Jul  8 08:53:19 storm kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 
0002)
Jul  8 08:53:19 storm kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> 
Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

 iwconfig tells me, that eth1 as which the card is listed, is "NOT 
READY". when trying to configure the card's ip adress with ifconfig, i 
get the following message in /var/log/messages:

Jul  8 08:57:46 storm kernel: eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
Jul  8 08:57:47 storm kernel: eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
Jul  8 08:57:47 storm kernel: eth1: interface reset failure
Jul  8 08:57:47 storm kernel: prism54: Your card/socket may be faulty, 
or IRQ line too busy :(

cardctl ident shows:
product info: "Intersil", "ISL3890", "-", "-"
  manfid: 0x000b, 0x3890
  function: 254 ((null))

cardctl info shows:
PRODID_1="Intersil"
PRODID_2="ISL3890"
PRODID_3="-"
PRODID_4="-"
MANFID=000b,3890
FUNCID=254

i have downloaded the current firmware from prism54.org and installed it 
per instructions there on my laptop. to no avail. do you have any ideas?

once again, let me tell you (and the list) how much i appreciate your 
support and the fact, that you answer to people's problems just for the 
fun of it.

cheers,
nick