[sclug] PCMCIA *and* CardBus, at the same time?

[David Given]

My home server, gate.cowlark.com, is a low-end laptop. It's doing most of its 
I/O via a couple of PCMCIA cards.

I recently had occasion to upgrade it to a 2.6 kernel (for a variety of 
reasons --- don't ask!). Unfortunately, I'm having rather a lot of trouble 
getting the PCMCIA setup to work.

CardBus cards work fine; I plug the card in, it shows up on the PCI bus, and 
any existing PCI driver finds it.

PCMCIA cards, however, don't. In particular, my Atmel wireless ethernet card 
that I really rather urgently need doesn't work. When I insert the card, I 
just get the message "Unable to apply power". A quick glance at the source 
reveals that the kernel's tried to turn on the power for the card, but it's 
failed. I suspect the issue is related to the fact that the card in slot 0 is 
my Cardbus ethernet card, running at 3.3V, and the card in slot 1 is my 
PCMCIA Atmel card, running at 5V.

(I am a little interested to know how the kernel works out whether the given 
card is a 3.3V or 5V device, given that without applying some power it can't 
read any of the CIS information...)

This is on a Toshiba Tecra 520CDT with the ToPIC PCMCIA chipset that's 
notoriously dodgy. It did, however, use to work. With 2.4, I eventually had 
to use the non-kernel PCMCIA drivers, but this isn't an option on 2.6.

Has anyone seen anything at all similar? Or suggest anything to try?

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