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The PCMCIA probe routine does not recognize the TI1131 controller on the Dell Inspiron 3000. This can be fixed in pcmcia-probe.c with the following patch: --- misc/src/install/pcmcia-probing/pcmcia-probe.c.orig Sat Nov 7 10:02:40 1998 +++ misc/src/install/pcmcia-probing/pcmcia-probe.c Sat Nov 7 10:03:08 1998 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ { "Vendor id=1180. Device id=466.", "Ricoh RL5C466" }, { "Vendor id=10b3. Device id=b106.", "SMC 34C90" }, { "Vendor id=1013. Device id=1110.", "Cirrus PD6832" }, - { "Vendor id=104c. Device id=ac12.", "TI 1131" } + { "Texas Instruments PCI1131", "TI 1131" } }; #define PCI_COUNT (sizeof(pci_id)/sizeof(pci_id_t)) One question though: why wasn't the entire pcmcia-probe routine (from the pcmcia package) included in the install program, instead of just a small portion of it which is currently the case?
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*** Bug 3434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Redhat-6.0 fails to detect pcmcia on a thinkpad 310E laptop, so installing/upgrading is impossible. Even in expert mode, there is no way to force loading of the pcmcia modules. linux/pcmcia-cs has no trouble detecting the pcmcia slots, so it must be a flaw in the red hat installer. Non-redhat can be installed with no problem: # cat /proc/pci Bus 0, device 4, function 0: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7. ------- Additional Comments From dkl 07/07/99 17:35 ------- Does the installer still fail to detect the pcmcia bridge if you have Cardbus support disabled? You can disable it by going into the BIOS (hitting F2 while turning on the machine) and then go to System Security, disable CardBus support then back out with the ESC key til you are asked to save the new settings.
this should be fixed in the next installer release.