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hgomersall
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:27 pm    Post subject: problem with pcmcia NIC and cardmgr hanging during install Reply with quote

I have quite a problem with my NIC during install.

I boot up from the CD fine and then insmod PCMCIA_core, i82365 and ds fine also.

The problem comes when i try to run 'cardmgr -f' . I get the following message then the system hangs - completely and totally. I need to do a hard reboot to get back in control.

    cs memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:clean
    cardmgr[186]: socket1: 3com 589 Ethernet: executing: `modprobe 3c589_cs`
    cs IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x0280-0x02ff 0x0378-0x037f 0x03c0-0x03df 0x03f8-0x03ff 0x04d0-0x04d7
    cs IO port probe 0x0380-0x03bf: clean
    cs IO port probe 0x03e0-0x03f7: clean
    cs IO port probe 0x0400-0x04cf: clean
    cs IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean
    cs IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff:


then it hangs.

I know the correct driver is the 3c589_cs and I have tried modprobing that manually. however, lsmod shows the driver to be unused.

When i installed Mandrake 8.1 on the same machine, I experienced a similar problem (system hanging when probing ethernet card), although the exact cause was masked by a gui. Mandrake 8.2 didn't seem to have this problem and I got 8.1 to work with the NIC after the initial install.

I have tried disabling the IrDA, the parallel port and taken out the mini-pci (win)modem. Nothing seems to work.

Does anybody have any insight into this problem and how to solve it? Any help at all would be much appreciated.

I am using a Dell I8100, PIII 933

many thanks

Henry Gomersall[/list]
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved to Laptops forum. "PCMCIA not working for you?"
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:03 am    Post subject: Inspiron 8100 series port exclusion for pcmcia-cs Reply with quote

Henry:

This is an IO port problem with the pcmcia-cs card services manager. Edit the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file and exclude the io address specifically for Inspiron 8xxx series laptops. See section 2.4 of the pcmcia-cs how-to at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/. Ran into this problem playing with Slackware on my 8100 recently. Should be [exclude port 0x800-0x8ff]. Will allow the module to load. Notice the last line in the error message you posted???

Hope it helps.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And friend of mine and his Inspiron 8100 experienced the same problem with the 1.4_rc2 LiveCD. After doing what's been suggested in this thread, the "cardmgr -f" command still fails to load the module.

Says something like: autoconfig failed

Any ideas?
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