Anonymous Memory

Jar jar at pcuf.fi
Tue May 24 04:02:18 EDT 2005


>
>> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:25:15PM +0300, Jar wrote:
>>
>>> This can be despairing, but what happens if you edit the
>>> /etc/pcmcia/config ?
>>>
>>>  #
>>>  card "Anonymous Memory"
>>>    anonymous
>>> -  bind "memory_cs"
>>> +  bind "xirc2ps_cs"
>>
>> That never accomplishes anything useful.
>
> OK this is just based of my own experience. Once I had very old Pentum 60 (MB:Intel
> Premiere PCI I) machine and other old Pentium 90 (MB:Intel Premiere PCI II) machine
> with _identical_ harddisks (kernel was 2.4.x). I used the external pcmcia-cs package
> and i82365 driver from it. In the Pentum 60, I can't get the pcmcia working, the
> dump_pirq reported there was no Interrupt router etc. The card was always detected
> as "Anonymous Memory". Finally I did only that despairing change to the
> /etc/pcmcia/config of the Pentum 60, and the pcmcia start to working. And it was
> working well.
>
> Who can explain why it helps in this case?

It might be that I also have to dump_cis in Pentium 90 and load the cis in Pentum 60
machine under the "Anonymous Memory", but I don't remember exactly.

-- 
Best Regards, Jar



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