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

[Mark Fortescue]

Hi All,

I have managed to cure my pcmcia issues by doing the following:

1) Obtain and build sysfsutils-2.1.0.tar.gz
2) Remove all udev* libraries and executables
3) Rebuild and install pciutils    from pciutils-2.2.4.tar.bz2
4) Rebuild and install pcmciautils from pcmciautils-014.tar.bz2
5) Rebuild and install udev        from udev-103.tar.bz2
6) Rebuild and install linux       from linux-2.6.16.29
7) Fix udev startup script and rules

There apear to have been a number of issues including: corrupted and/or 
missing kernel modules, sysfs incompatibility issues and udev conflicts.

Thank you for your assistance in pointing me in the correct directions to
fix the issues I was having.

Regards
 	Mark Fortescue.

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> 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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