ROTAC Cardbus bridge RL5c476 and pcmcia problem

[Siddarth Gore]

Hello Pavel,

pci=assign-busses worked like magic. Thanks a lot.
Actually what I observed was that it was working fine for 16bit cards
without this option but not for 32bit.

-siddarth

On 6/28/06, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:51 -0700, Siddarth Gore wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot for the reply. lspci shows two entries
> > 03:02.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 82)
> > 03:02.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 82)
> >
> > but as you said the netgear hardware is not detected by the ath_pci
> > driver. Is this a problem with the madwifi driver or the PCI-Cardbus
> > adaptor.
>
> That's likely a problem with the bus assignment on your machine.  You
> can try adding pci=assign-busses to the kernel command line.
>
> Madwifi cannot be blamed if lspci cannot see the device.
>
> > also do i need a driver for the PCI CardBus adaptor (CBS52U from
> > ROTAC)? If yes where can i find it?
>
> That's the easy part.  Just make sure that CONFIG_CARDBUS and
> CONFIG_YENTA_RICOH are defined in the kernel's .config file.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
>