In message <rmi64vw62q0.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>, Greg Troxel writes:
>  I have a ThinkPad whose cardbus sockets used to work, maybe a year ago.
>  I haven't noticed them in months, because the machine's mostly
>  self-sufficient, but I tried to put in a USB controller, and it didn't work.
>
>  cbb1: bad Vcc request. sock_ctrl 0xffffff88, sock_status 0xffffffff
>
>I had similar trouble with the cardbus controller on a Thinkpad 600E
>(2645-4AU), and fixed it by changing the RBUS_MIN_START value.  I'm
>slightly fuzzy, but basically cardbus space is mapped somewhere, and
>the default was IIRC 1 GB.  On the 600E, that fails in a similar way,
>and I think only the first 1 GB of addressing works somehow.  Mapping
>at 0.5 GB works ok.  In your case, you should try moving
>RBUS_MIN_START to 2.5 GB, to get it away from real memory.  But take
>with a gr of salt.  This could be more automatic now, and I didn't
>deeply understand this.

Oh!  That's a very likely guess.  In particular, it fits with the very
different addresses I was seeing in Windows.  Thanks, I'll try that.

-s