Re: test2-pre4 and pcmcia network problems

From: Alex Romosan (romosan@adonis.lbl.gov)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 20:15:54 EST


David Hinds <dhinds@valinux.com> writes:

> > I'm almost positive that it's the power sense that goes wrong, and this
> > has had some changes lately.
>
> You're correct. You must always do a CVSTEST at init time after doing
> the interrupt scan: anything that writes to the SOCKET_FORCE register
> leaves invalid data in the present-state register unless you do this.
> Some bridges will automatically re-interrogate eventually; others will
> report the wrong card type.
>
> In the old i82365 driver, I always do the CVSTEST. Then in the
> equivalent of yenta_get_status(), I set SS_PENDING if the socket
> status indicates that a card interrogation is in progress, which is
> what the current test in yenta_power_sense() does. That tells the
> upper layers to try again later.
>

i tried the patch, but now my pcmcia network card doesn't get
recognized. looking at syslog i see:

  cs: socket 1 voltage interrogation timed out

--alex--

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