Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 31574
Problem (system locks up) with PCMCIA on Toshiba Satellite 2180CDT
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:01:10 EST
On my Toshibas the PCMCIA-options in bios are: Auto-Selected CardBus/16-bit PCIC Compatible On Toshiba Sat. Pro 4280 PCMCIA works: RedHat 7.0.9x: PCIC in bios, PCIC=i82365 in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: 3c589_cs card works. CARDBUS/16-bit or Autoselect in bios, PCIC=yenta_socket: 3c589_cs card and SMC Cardbus card (tulip) both works. On Toshiba Sat. 2180: With RedHat 7.0: PCIC in bios, PCIC=i82365 in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: 3c589_cs card works. Cardbus/16-bit or Autoselect in bios, PCIC=i82365 in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: 3c589_cs works. SMC Cardbus is recognized, and works if I upgrade Pcmcia-package. With RedHat 7.0.9x: PCIC in bios, PCIC=i82365 in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: Locks up on starting pcmcia! Have to restart with button. Not always possible to recover the file system. Autoselect in bios, PCIC=i82365: Tells me to use pci=biosirq before it locks up.... With pci=biosirq: locks up on starting pcmcia. CardBus/16-bit in bios: No lockup this time, but i82365 is not loaded, and cards doesn't work. "no socket drivers loaded". CardBus/16-bit in bios, /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: PCIC=yenta_socket: Works with SMC Cardbus card, locks up with 3c589_cs. Autoselect in bios, PCIC=yenta_socket in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: Everything locks up when pcmcia is started. Conclusion: PCMCIA works fine on my Toshiba Satellite pro 4280. PCMCIA works fine with RedHat 7.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 2180. With RedHat 7.0.9x PCMCIA Cardbus (SMC, tulip) works on Toshiba Sat. 2180 with CardBus/16-bit in bios and PCIC=yenta_socket in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, but I can't get 3c589_cs to work on this laptop. If I have PCIC-option in bios, it will lock up on first boot after install, even with no cards in the sockets! I have now tried to compile new kernel (from 2.4.2-0.1.22 source) - and install pcmcia-cs-3.1.25 from source. PCIC=i82365 in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia. Both cards works now.
Just to get it clear: 0.1.22 and later fix the problem for you?
No, not 0.1.19, not 0.1.22 - and not 0.1.25. I can't get the 3c589_cs card to work at all with 7.0.9x, but if I compile kernel-2.4.2-0.1.22 from source - without pcmcia-support, and compile pcmcia-cs-3.1.25 from source I can get it work. It doesn't work at all with modules from 2.4.2 kernels from redhat.
The problem on this laptop is still the same with kernel-2.4.2-0.1.29 from rawhide (on a qa0309 installation).
hopefully fixed in current releases, please reopen if reproducable with Fedora/RHEL. Thanks.