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I have a PreMax PE200 pcmcia ethernet card, which is supported, but for some reason was not configured properly during install. The error message during bootup, or when the card is inserted is: "pcnet_cs: Request IO: No More Items". I had RedHat 5.2 installed on the same machine, and the card worked fine. I had upgraded to 5.9.7 using a CD image downloaded off the net, and the upgrade evidently preserved the configuration for the ethernet card, because the card still worked. But, when I did a clean install of 6.0 using an "official RedHat 6.0" CD, it won't install. The system log under RedHat 5.2 shows: ----------------------------------------------------------- Jun 8 17:17:48 annex cardmgr[222]: starting, version is 3.0.5 Jun 8 17:17:50 annex cardmgr[222]: watching 2 sockets Jun 8 17:17:50 annex kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding nothing: probe failed. Jun 8 17:17:50 annex kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x158-0x15f 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Jun 8 17:17:50 annex kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Jun 8 17:17:50 annex kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. Jun 8 17:17:50 annex cardmgr[222]: initializing socket 0 Jun 8 17:17:50 annex cardmgr[222]: socket 0: PreMax PE-200 Ethernet Jun 8 17:17:50 annex cardmgr[222]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/preferred/net/8390.o' Jun 8 17:17:50 annex cardmgr[222]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o' Jun 8 17:17:50 annex cardmgr[222]: executing: './network start eth0' Jun 8 17:17:50 annex kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x320, irq 3, hw_addr 00:20:E0:0E:1A:03 ---------------------------------------------------------- But, when I upgraded to 6.0 again, I got this result: --------------------------------------------------------- Jun 9 01:14:26 annex kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x158-0x15f 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Jun 9 01:14:26 annex kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Jun 9 01:14:26 annex kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. --------- Jun 9 01:20:42 annex cardmgr[328]: initializing socket 0 Jun 9 01:20:42 annex cardmgr[328]: socket 0: PreMax PE-200 Ethernet Jun 9 01:20:42 annex cardmgr[328]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/8390.o' Jun 9 01:20:42 annex cardmgr[328]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o' Jun 9 01:20:42 annex kernel: pcnet_cs: RequestIO: No more items Jun 9 01:20:42 annex cardmgr[328]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: No such device ------------------------------------------------------------ There is a section in the pcmcia HowTo that talks about resource starvation, and the need to set up the pcmcia/config.opts file to exclude or include IO addresses, but it doesn't say how to determine those parameters. The support folkswould not provide any help for me on this, and suggested I submit a bug report. ------- Additional Comments From 06/23/99 12:39 ------- Problem Resolved! I just needeed to turn off Plug-and-Play support in the BIOS. That freed up more resources so PCMCIA can assign an IO port to the card.