[Bug 4501] PCMCIA Card not powered on - CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)

[Robert Denier]

I have a via embedded MII board with the 600 Mhz fanless chip.  I have
seen the power errors on this, but they never occur if the card is in
there when its booted.

A more pressing problem is the GC83 sony ericsson card I have hangs
after a short time of usage, but I think that is the cards fault.  (You
can use the card again after a cardctl reset.  I'm using the latest
mm-sources in portage.)  If anyone thinks it may be related please let
me know.  

I have contacted ericsson to try to get the older firmware again which I
believe worked better, but they flat out refuse to give it to me and
their firmware updater simply updates it to the newest with no prompts
or options to save anything.

If anyone wants more info about this board or for me to try a patch then
let me know.  I may try some of the offered patches for the pcmcia
controller anyway, in the event it really is related somehow.

-Robert

---
output of lspci -vv
---

0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa01
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 168
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
        Region 0: Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: ea001000-ea002000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: ea003000-ea004000
        I/O window 0: 00009000-00009403
        I/O window 1: 00009800-00009c03
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+
PostWrite+
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa01
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 168
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: Memory at ea005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: ea006000-ea007000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: ea008000-ea009000
        I/O window 0: 0000a000-0000a403
        I/O window 1: 0000a800-0000ac03
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+
PostWrite+
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001


On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 13:09 -0700, bugme-daemon at kernel-bugs.osdl.org
wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4501
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From rmk at arm.linux.org.uk  2005-05-31 13:09 -------
> cardbus-fixup-bridge is potentially dangerous since we have no idea how the
> bus numbers have been allocated.
> 
> The ideal fix is for Linux to renumber the busses itself.  Try:
> 
> pci=assign-busses
> 
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-- 
Robert Denier (denier at umr.edu)
PhD Electrical Engineering (May 2005)
University of Missouri-Rolla
http://www.finiteinfinity.com