Bug 17451

Summary: Wrong PCMCIA card type detected at boot (only)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <redhat>
Component: kernelAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-09-12 20:25:21 UTC 
On a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT (with ToPIC97 bridge) and "Xircom CE3-
10/100 Fast Ethernet" PCMCIA ethernet card, the following happens:
When booting with the card inserted, it is recognised as "Anonymous 
Memory" (and so fails to operate normally).
When inserting the card at a later stage, it is recognised correctly and 
it functions normally.

/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains:
   PCMCIA=yes
   PCIC=i82365
   PCIC_OPTS="poll_interval=100 do_scan=0"
   CORE_OPTS=

I had to add the "poll_interval=100" when installing RH5.2 (then it worked 
normally)
I had to add "do_scan=0" to prevent RH6.2 hanging on booting pcmcia.

Thanks.
Comment 1 David Hinds 2000-11-22 02:38:38 UTC 
This is a known problem with certain Toshiba laptops; with the absence of
technical help from Toshiba I do not think this will ever get fixed.

-- Dave
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2000-11-22 07:35:54 UTC 
If this is a hardware issue, then why was the ethernet card recognized 
correctly when booting RH5.2 and isn't it recognized correctly when booting 
RH6.2?

Martin