atheros PCMCIA card not longer working with kernel >= 2.6.13-rc3

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> Hi, I'm using kernel 2.6.13-rc4 on an Apple powerbook G4 (post-feb-2005). I am 
> also using pcmciautils 007 and I've disabled the pcmcia-cs userspace tools in 
> case that was breaking things. 
> 
> For the wifi drivers, I use madwifi (CVS HEAD), and for the PCMCIA socket, 
> ''yenta-socket'. AFAIK hotplug is installed and working.
> 
> When I plug the card in, madwifi complains:
> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #0:10000 at 0 for 0001:11:00.0
> ath_pci: cannot reserve PCI memory region

PCI resource trouble... can you post the output of /proc/iomem for a working
and a non-working kernel, please?

> So lspci thinks the card isn't using any memory regions... looks to me like 
> the card isn't being initialised properly when it is plugged in.

It seems to me that the PCI core breaks something...

> I've tried both the 'static' and 'dynamic' modes supported  by pcmciautils. 

On powerbooks, you can use "static".

Thanks,
	Dominik