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    PCMCIA socket not working properly -> wireless card unusable

    Hallo everybody.
    I have a fresh new installation of Kubuntu 9.04 updated with KDE 4.2.4.
    My laptop is an old Toshiba A30-303 laptop with a few updates (ram, HD, DVD-RW).
    I use wireless internet via a Ralink based Belkin F5D7010 card, inserted into the PCMCIA slot.

    The problem is that apparently the PCMCIA socket does not recognize cards. So:
    output from "sudo lshw" correctly points out the pcmcia bus with "driver=yenta_carrdbus", "sudo lspci" shows the card but there is no way I can see the card inserted. In fact, when I insert the card in the slot I get kernel message that follows:

    "kernel [ 1138.309035] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported"

    And... iwconfig does not show any wlan0 cards (no wireless extensions to lo, eth0, pan0).

    I tried to google a bit...no luck. Any ideas?

    To note that I had the card working in my previous LFS installation, the drivers exist and they work without NDISWRAPPER, so I assume it is a problem not with the card itself but with the PCMCIA...

    Thanks for your help in advance.

    Matteo

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    #2
    Re: PCMCIA socket not working properly -> wireless card unusable

    did you insert the card after boot? or boot with it allredey in?

    try booting with it allredey in.

    VINNY
    i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
    16GB RAM
    Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores
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      #3
      Re: PCMCIA socket not working properly -> wireless card unusable

      Indeed I tried with it already inserted and the result is unfortunately exactly what I have described. So I really assume it is a sort of bug in the management of PCMCIA bus (the card is not recognised at all, the pccardctrl command shows no card connected unfortunately).

      As said, it must be before the real card driver is even considered.

      Will try to post the DMESG output as soon as reasonably practicable.

      (now working from another computer)

      Thanks
      Matteo
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        Re: PCMCIA socket not working properly -> wireless card unusable

        Here is the DMESG output. Very last line generated by attempt to extract and re-insert the card. Nothing worked anyway. Really, any help or direction (something to do with IRQ possibly too?) is very appreciated.

        [ 0.000000] BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009f800/0009f800
        [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
        [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
        [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 (Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic)
        [ 0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
        [ 0.000000] Intel GenuineIntel
        [ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD
        [ 0.000000] NSC Geode by NSC
        [ 0.000000] Cyrix CyrixInstead
        [ 0.000000] Centaur CentaurHauls
        [ 0.000000] Transmeta GenuineTMx86
        [ 0.000000] Transmeta TransmetaCPU
        [ 0.000000] UMC UMC UMC UMC
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007dee0000 (usable)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007dee0000 - 000000007deeb000 (ACPI data)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007deeb000 - 000000007df00000 (ACPI NVS)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007df00000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] DMI present.
        [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x7dee0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
        [ 0.000000] Scanning 2 areas for low memory corruption
        [ 0.000000] modified physical RAM map:
        [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000002000 (usable)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000006000 - 0000000000007000 (usable)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000007000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000010000 - 0000000000092800 (usable)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000007dee0000 (usable)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 000000007dee0000 - 000000007deeb000 (ACPI data)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 000000007deeb000 - 000000007df00000 (ACPI NVS)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 000000007df00000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
        [ 0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 373fe000 @ 10000-16000
        [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 378bc000 - 37fef2d1
        [ 0.000000] Allocated new RAMDISK: 00881000 - 00fb42d1
        [ 0.000000] Move RAMDISK from 00000000378bc000 - 0000000037fef2d0 to 00881000 - 00fb42d0
        [ 0.000000] 1130MB HIGHMEM available.
        [ 0.000000] 883MB LOWMEM available.
        [ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 373fe000
        [ 0.000000] low ram: 00000000 - 373fe000
        [ 0.000000] bootmap 00012000 - 00018e80
        [ 0.000000] (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 00373fe000]
        [ 0.000000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
        [ 0.000000] #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
        [ 0.000000] #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
        [ 0.000000] #3 [0000100000 - 000087c52c] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 000087c52c]
        [ 0.000000] #4 [000087d000 - 0000881000] INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [000087d000 - 0000881000]
        [ 0.000000] #5 [000009f800 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009f800 - 0000100000]
        [ 0.000000] #6 [0000010000 - 0000012000] PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000012000]
        [ 0.000000] #7 [0000881000 - 0000fb42d1] NEW RAMDISK ==> [0000881000 - 0000fb42d1]
        [ 0.000000] #8 [0000012000 - 0000019000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000012000 - 0000019000]
        [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f6ca0] 000f6ca0
        [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
        [ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
        [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x000373fe
        [ 0.000000] HighMem 0x000373fe -> 0x0007dee0
        [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
        [ 0.000000] early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges
        [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000002
        [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000006 -> 0x00000007
        [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000010 -> 0x00000092
        [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007dee0
        [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 515685
        [ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c06d0f80, node_mem_map c1000000
        [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
        [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
        [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3941 pages, LIFO batch:0
        [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1736 pages used for memmap
        [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 220470 pages, LIFO batch:31
        [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 2262 pages used for memmap
        [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 287244 pages, LIFO batch:31
        [ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
        [ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
        [ 0.000000] Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
        [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: OEM ID: INTEL
        [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: Product ID: MGT+ICH4M
        [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
        [ 0.000000] Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU)
        [ 0.000000] I/O APIC #1 Version 32 at 0xFEC00000.
        [ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
        [ 0.000000] Processors: 1
        [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000007000 - 0000000000010000
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000092000 - 00000000000a0000
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000ce000
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000d0000 - 00000000000dc000
        [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000
        [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:7ec00000)
        [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 45056 bytes of per cpu data
        [ 0.000000] NR_CPUS: 64, nr_cpu_ids: 1, nr_node_ids 1
        [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 511655
        [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=1734ccab-7601-4012-b040-93513cb40a56 ro quiet splash acpi=off
        [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
        [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
        [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
        [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
        [ 0.000000] TSC: Using PIT calibration value
        [ 0.000000] Detected 3063.875 MHz processor.
        [ 0.004000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
        [ 0.004000] console [tty0] enabled
        [ 0.004000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
        [ 0.004000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
        [ 0.004000] allocated 10316160 bytes of page_cgroup
        [ 0.004000] please try cgroup_disable=memory option if you don't want
        [ 0.004000] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
        [ 0.004000] Memory: 2019652k/2063232k available (4126k kernel code, 42176k reserved, 2208k data, 532k init, 1158024k highmem)
        [ 0.004000] virtual kernel memory layout:
        [ 0.004000] fixmap : 0xffc77000 - 0xfffff000 (3616 kB)
        [ 0.004000] pkmap : 0xff400000 - 0xff800000 (4096 kB)
        [ 0.004000] vmalloc : 0xf7bfe000 - 0xff3fe000 ( 120 MB)
        [ 0.004000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf73fe000 ( 883 MB)
        [ 0.004000] .init : 0xc0737000 - 0xc07bc000 ( 532 kB)
        [ 0.004000] .data : 0xc0507a6f - 0xc072fe60 (2208 kB)
        [ 0.004000] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0507a6f (4126 kB)
        [ 0.004000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
        [ 0.004000] SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
        [ 0.004016] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6127.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=12255500)
        [ 0.004039] Security Framework initialized
        [ 0.004053] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
        [ 0.004077] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
        [ 0.004093] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
        [ 0.004267] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
        [ 0.004273] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
        [ 0.004277] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
        [ 0.004283] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
        [ 0.004303] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
        [ 0.004307] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
        [ 0.004312] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
        [ 0.004331] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
        [ 0.020751] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
        [ 0.116309] Freeing SMP alternatives: 18k freed
        [ 0.116450] ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table
        [ 0.117012] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=-1 pin1=-1 apic2=0 pin2=0
        [ 0.120001] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
        [ 0.120001] ..... (found apic 0 pin 0) ...
        [ 0.160406] ....... works.
        [ 0.160409] CPU0: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
        [ 0.272414] Brought up 1 CPUs
        [ 0.272418] Total of 1 processors activated (6127.75 BogoMIPS).
        [ 0.272480] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
        [ 0.272898] net_namespace: 776 bytes
        [ 0.272911] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
        [ 0.273154] Time: 1:47:31 Date: 06/14/09
        [ 0.273162] regulator: core version 0.5
        [ 0.273201] NET: Registered protocol family 16
        [ 0.273354] EISA bus registered
        [ 0.273806] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b2, last bus=2
        [ 0.273809] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
        [ 0.274903] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
        [ 0.275078] SCSI subsystem initialized
        [ 0.275118] libata version 3.00 loaded.
        [ 0.275172] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
        [ 0.275191] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
        [ 0.275220] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
        [ 0.275340] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
        [ 0.275344] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
        [ 0.275474] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe8000000-0xefffffff]
        [ 0.275479] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xe0000000-0xe007ffff]
        [ 0.275484] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 18 io port: [0x1800-0x1807]
        [ 0.275500] pci 0000:00:02.0: supports D1
        [ 0.275517] pci 0000:00:02.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff]
        [ 0.275522] pci 0000:00:02.1: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xe0080000-0xe00fffff]
        [ 0.275540] pci 0000:00:02.1: supports D1
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          Re: PCMCIA socket not working properly -> wireless card unusable [SOLVED]

          I googled after realising that it was more an IRQ - related problem rather than a card problem. There was apparently some conflict in assigning the IRQ.
          I honestly found the solution in another post.

          Solution is to enable ACPI support (albeit the kernel seemed to be able to boot, initially, only if acpi=off was passed)
          The two relevant options to pass to kernel that solved my problem are as follows:

          clock=pmtmr nolapic

          This solved the problem and now everything (incl. eth0, wlan0, ...) seems to be working.

          The card is recognised and hunts for networks.

          regards

          Matteo



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