PCMCIA cards not detected

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hey,

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:53:07PM -0800, raraks wrote:
> disabling some devices in the BIOS and adding that range to config.opts 
> worked. pccardctl ident etc. now return information on the card inserted.
> 
> Now, for some dumb questions perhaps - there are IO windows vs memory 
> windows .. and the cards use one or the other or both.
> - Is there something in the card signalling that indicates one or the other 
> ?

Extract the CIS (you can read it out of
/sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket0/cis ) and run it through "dump_cis"
(part of pcmciautils, enable the debug tools). That should provide you with
valuable information

> - How does the system know the size of window to use to read the CIS 
> information ? is this always fixed depending on the type of card ?

That's fixed, yes.

Best,
	Dominik