what is PCI to PCMCIA adaptor device name

rukhsana ansari rukhsana.ansari at oneconvergence.com
Wed Jul 12 23:32:27 EDT 2006


Hi Simon,

If its a PCMCIA card, do a "lspcmcia -vv" (assuming you have  
pcmciautils-013 or higher) and you should see a device listed.
You can aslo check "dmesg" and "/var/log/messages" to see the 
information on the device assigned.

-Rukhsana

Simon Wu wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
>   
>> Simon Wu wrote:
>>     
>>>  installed a PCI to PCMCIA card adaptor in my desktop PC with Fedora
>>> 3. Apparently, it is detected as Ismod shows:
>>> yenta_socket   21705  1
>>> rsrc_nonstatic  12737  1 yenta_socket
>>> pcmcia_core    50013  2 yenta_socket, rsrc_nonstatic
>>>
>>> I have a 3G wireless modem connected to th adaptor.
>>>
>>> However, I couldn't find a device name under /dev/. Can someone tell
>>> me what and where is the device name? Is it configurable?
>>>       
>> Is this a PCMCIA or CardBus device? If the latter, which I suspect, the device particulars will show
>> up with the PCI data. Check the full output of "lspci -v" and check for an entry that starts with
>> 03:00.0, which is where the new interface should appear. The 03 comes from the secondary Bus listed
>> below. If your device does show up there, also do an "lspci -n". My wireless interface reports
>> "02:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02)". Of importance are the numbers in the position where I have
>> 14e4:4320. For a driver to attach to the device, its internal tables must match these values.
>>
>>     
>>> By the way, the lspci shows:
>>> 02:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 81)
>>>        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 11
>>>        Region 0: Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>>        Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
>>>        Memory window 0: 20400000-207ff000 (prefetchable)
>>>        Memory window 1: 20800000-20bff000
>>>        I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
>>>        I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
>>>        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+
>>>        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
>>>       
>> Larry
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks Larry. "lspci -v" shows the following.
>
> 02:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 81)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
>         Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
>         Memory window 0: 20400000-207ff000 (prefetchable)
>         Memory window 1: 20800000-20bff000
>         I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
>         I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
>         16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
>
> I couldn't find the information you described. But if it works, where
> and what name should my data card (3G Wireless modem) be?
>
> Simon
>
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