Cardbus Failure "cs: warning: no high memory space available!"

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

Could you post a full dmesg and the output of lspcmcia -vvv (latest
pcmciautils), please?

	Dominik

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:49:44PM -0000, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thank you for your comments.
> 
> At the moment, I can't use kernels later than 2.6.16.x due to a dynamic
> linker/ELF loader issue in the later kernels that prevents any executables
> from running due to an address mismatch.
> I would prefer to be using a Linux-2.6.18 kernel but until I have the time
> to create a workaround for the above mentioned problem, I can do little
> about.
> This is why I was after patches, not a full kernel update.
> 
> I will upgrade to udev-104 and see if I can remove the previous udev
> installations and get a clean start-up as the earlier udev-031 and udev-103
> start-up systems appear to be competing with one another. The udev
> documentation has (from my point of view) a lot to be desired so my hand
> crafted start-up is far from ideal. I do not believe it is an issue in this
> case, as pcmcia-socket-startup has no observable effect.
> 
> I will get a 2.6.19 kernel and have a look at the differences. Maybe I can
> generate a patch that fixes things for the 2.6.16 kernel that will allow me
> to continue without a complete system re-build of all application
> code/libraries.
> 
> Regards
> 	Mark Fortescue.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-pcmcia-bounces at lists.infradead.org
> [mailto:linux-pcmcia-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Peter Stuge
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:50 PM
> To: linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Cardbus Failure "cs: warning: no high memory space available!"
> 
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:35:00PM -0000, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> > I am using a generic Linux-2.6.16.29 kernel
> 
> Ouch, that's a bit old.
> 
> 
> > 1) What (if any) patches need to be applied to the kernel and where
> > can I get them.
> 
> I would suggest a fresh 2.6.19 kernel from ftp.<country>.kernel.org.
> 
> 
> > 2) What (if any) special configuration options do I need to set
> > (build time and/or kernel command line). My current kernel is
> > mostly not modular.
> 
> Mine too. You'll need Yenta and either PCMCIA IDE or PCMCIA PATA
> support, or possibly both of the latter. I've started to use the
> experimental PCMCIA PATA code with success.
> 
> 
> > 3) What additional pieces of software do I need (including version
> > numbers and patches as there appears to be a great deal of
> > incompatibility between different versions of tools like UDEV).
> 
> Updating from udev-084/087 to udev-104 made hotplugging work on a
> system I worked on yesterday. With the older udev I had to run
> pcmcia-socket-startup manually to get the socket going.
> 
> 
> Generally, try the latest version of both kernel and udev and see if
> it works better. There have been a lot of changes lately, all for the
> better. :)
> 
> 
> //Peter
> 
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