Pcmcia: 16 bit card does not work in 2.6.18+ kernel

[Tony Olech]

Slackware has a similar looking problem in that pcmcia-socket-startup
is installed in the wrong place. Try executing pcmcia-socket-startup
by hand.

Tony Olech

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:33 +0200, Pius.Braun at t-systems.com wrote:
> Hello community @linux-pcmcia mailing list,
> 
> We have a CompactPCI system with 
> - PC running Linux 
> - PCMCIA Card Holder with Texas Instruments PCI 1420 Controller
> 
> On Kernel 2.6.9, any PCMCIA Card worked well. 
> Now on 2.6.18 (even 2.6.28) no 16 Bit PCMCIA Card is working in the
> slot. 
> 32-bit cards work well. 
> On a notebook computer with 2.6.18 kernel, it works well.
> 
> It looks like it would get no interrupt, port or shared memory. 
> What we definitely see is, that the driver cannot access any IO-ports.
> 
> We tried some things: 
> - the problem appears with Redhat EL 5, Debian Etch, Vanilla Kernel
> xxx, Ubuntu (2.6.28) 
> - checking different start parameters for the kernel made no changes 
> - Dominik Brodowski had a short look but not enough time to support
> further 
> - made some diagnostic ouput (attachment)
> 
> <<etch.tar>> 
> Any ideas to me an CC recipient are welcome.
> 
> Regards& 
> freundliche Grüße
> 
> Pius Braun 
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