Subject: Re: Megahertz PCMCIA problems
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@lonnie.egr.unlv.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/11/1998 11:02:18
>I sent this message a few days ago. I'm still looking for any
>suggestions that people might have. I will have some time to
>hack on it in a few days, but I really would appreciate some
>pointers on where to look since I'm not at all familiar with
>the PCMCIA subsystem and I haven't seen any docs on it (in fact,
>it seems to be missing on the web page listing of busses, too).
>
>Hi, folks... I'm new to PCMCIA, so I'd appreciate it if someone with
>some more experience could help me get my modem card up and running.
>
>I've got a Toshiba Satellite 2110CS with a 3Com 3C589 and Megahertz 14.4
>modem card. The ethernet's working fine, but I'm getting stray
>interrupts from the modem card and when I try to connect to the tty
>device that is attached to the card, I get a hangup from cu.
>
>I've enabled PCMCIADEBUG (for the stuff in sys/dev/pcmcia--I just put
>it in pcmciareg.h and commented out the definition in pcmcia.c). I'm
>including the dmesg output for a session where I booted without the
>3Com card installed, so it was just the modem card--I then tried cu
>(which failed) and inserted the 3Com card. As I said, I'm new to
>pcmcia. If anyone has any ideas on what I can try next, I'd love to
>hear them. It looks to me in just glancing at the code, that the card
>is enabled, then disabled on each 'stray' interrupt. I did notice that
>the ethernet card picked up the same interrupt number when it was
>installed.
>
>Any ideas?
I have a similar setup. Try doing ``ifconfig ep0 down'' before you
attempty to use the modem, I have found that the modem hangs if the
ethernet interface is active.
--Greg