pccards are not detected

[Daniel Ritz]

Marcus Better wrote:
> Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > it's a change in PCI init (and your BIOS is broken)...
> 
> This laptop is really testing my patience.
> 
> > could you test the attached patch?
> 
> Yes, it works now! Thanks a lot! Should I disable CONFIG_PCI_BIOS in the
> future to avoid this?

no. i'll send the patch towards the PCI maintainer. PCI_BIOS should be the
last fallback...

> 
> BTW, any idea why I need to insert every card twice before it is detected?
> 

no. but there seems to be a problem with o2micro bridges. you're not the
first one with this problem...i didn't find the reason yet (mine works)...
i'll keep looking...

> And is there any particular laptop manufacturer that is more trustworthy
> with respect to Linux PCMCIA, or Linux support in general?

dunno. my very old toshiba works fine and my newer fujitsu siemens works
fine as well...one has toshiba cardbus, the other o2micro as well...
> 
> Marcus

rgds
-daniel