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Topic: PCMCIA on Panasonic ToughBook CF-45, Anonymous Memory blues...

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y23

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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,08:11

Machine: Panasonic Toughbook CF45, 97ram, 4gigHDD, 233Mhz, trackball, USB, PCMCIA, Windows ME
I am trying XIRCOM PCMCIA (CEM56-100 PCCARD,16bit,5V - and "RealPort RE-100") network cards, but:

cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: warning: no high memory space available!

here the full dmesg, lspci, lsmod:
http://y23stockpic.free.fr/misc/panasonic_notebook.html

I tried various kernel parameters pci=assign-busses pci=usepirqmask pnpbios=off pci=biosirq
... all to no avail.

Bakshish (bribe): If you can help me get it going I'll send you a 2008 Astronomical Pocket Diary

curaga

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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,12:39

What, you're still using DSL 0.9??

Suggest you try the newest RC for DSL 4. With a newer kernel, it might sort everything out for you.

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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,14:54

You could try booting with nopcmcia, then manually insert which modules you need.

@curaga: I still have lots of 1.x setups

y23

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Posted: Sep. 29 2007,04:15

I tried NOPCMCIA and did modprobe pcmcia_cs but it gave a "module not found."
Can someone type a few command I can try?
Or suggest a live-distro that has older pcmcia modules for 16bit cards?

Since mine is a TI PCI1250 controller I tried the solution for "old laptop and the the TI1620 cardbus controller"
setpci -s 0:a.0 SUBORDINATE_BUS=0x0A
as described here.

No cigar :-(

My hunch is that the solution is partly told here

PUPPY 2.17 failed, too.