[Gllug] Installation problem (PCMCIA/Network card related)

Thu Jan 9 19:30:10 UTC 2003

In accordance with my changing work role, I have just received a laptop, and
been advised to run an operating system I know well and can run X clients on.

Naturally, I would like this to be Debian, but on trying to install woody, I
have run into some difficulties.

The computer is a Compaq Armada 7792DMT. The network card is a 3Com, model
printed on it is 3C3FEM656C, shows up as 3CXFEM656C in Debian.

I am unable to get the network card drivers installed enough to enable a link
light to appear on my hub. It has been suggested that this could be due
to the PCMCIA bridge, rather than the network card, and that I need to
include some configuration switches, but I have not received much in the way
of help.

I really do not want to have to run Windows on this machine, so any help
would be appreciated.

I am including below the contents of /proc/pci and the last few messages in
dmesg.

# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation NorthStar CPU to PCI Bridge (rev 1).
      Master Capable.  Latency=66.
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 1).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=66.  Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=7.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x7fffe000 [0x7fffefff].
  Bus  0, device  12, function  1:
    CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (#2) (rev 1).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=66.  Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x7ffff000 [0x7fffffff].
  Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86cM65 [Aurora64V+] (rev 67).
      IRQ 11.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x43ffffff].
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation MIS-L (rev 4).
  Bus  0, device  14, function  1:
    IDE interface: Compaq Computer Corporation Triflex Dual EIDE Controller (rev 3).
      I/O at 0x0 [0x7].
      I/O at 0x0 [0x3].
      I/O at 0x0 [0x7].
      I/O at 0x0 [0x3].
      I/O at 0xb140 [0xb14f].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    Ethernet controller:  (rev 16).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=5.
  Bus  1, device   0, function  1:
    Communication controller:  (rev 16).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=5.

# dmesg (from loading of PCMCIA Card Services only)

Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
  kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
  TI 1131 rev 01 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0c, mem 0x7fffe000
    host opts [0]: [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 66/176] [bus 1/1]
    host opts [1]: [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 66/176] [bus 2/2]
    ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10,15 PCI status changes
cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x6564
3c59x.c:v0.99Q 5/16/2000 Donald Becker, becker at scyld.com
  http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
cs: cb_config(bus 1)
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x220-0x22f 0x250-0x257 0x270-0x277 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x408-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0230-0x024f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0258-0x026f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0278-0x032f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0338-0x0377: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x0387: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0390-0x03bf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x0407: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0410-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x83f 0x850-0x87f
cs: IO port probe 0x0880-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc48-0xc4f 0xc68-0xc6f
cs: IO port probe 0x0c50-0x0c67: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c70-0x0cff: clean.
cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for CardBus socket 0
cs: cb_release(bus 1)
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000-000001ff>
3c575_cb: RequestIO: Out of resource
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device . Please try using pci=biosirq.
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
: 3Com PCI 3CXFEM656C Tornado+Winmodem CardBus at 0x0. Vers LK1.1.16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device  to 64
 *** Warning: IRQ 0 is unlikely to work! ***

(by the way, I have tried pci=biosirq, it causes card services to segfault.)

Any suggestions would be welcome.

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