Bugzilla Bug 84234

pcmciautils-001 is released. If used with modern kernels (e.g. 2.6.11-mm1) it
allows you to "emerge unmerge pcmcia-cs" and still use 16-bit PCMCIA cards.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=52748) [details]
ebuild for pcmciautils-001

pcmciautils-001 requires some bugfixes to module-init-tools and
libsysfs/sysfsutils to work properly.

Created an attachment (id=52754) [details]
ebuild for pcmciautils-001

pcmciautils needs coldplug to work properly if PCMCIA was built into the
kernel. fixed ebuild to reflect this fact.

Looks good - I'll take care of this. Thank you for submitting it.

Where did you see the announcement of this release?

I'm author and "upstream" and did not really announce it outside the linux
pcmcia list at http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia . The
gentoo HOWTO can be found at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-304357.html .

Ah, right.

Just making sure I understand this right: this package only works with the recent pcmcia/hotplug changes in -mm?

> Just making sure I understand this right: this package only works with the 
> recent pcmcia/hotplug changes in -mm?

Exactly. The chances of these getting merged for 2.6.12 are good, though.

Good. I'll add the ebuild to the tree after some local testing.

Againg: thank you for submitting this.

pcmciautils-002 was just released

Created an attachment (id=53896) [details]
ebuild for pcmciautils-002

Does it only work with 16-bit PCMCIA cards? (no 32-bit CARDBUS?)

32-bit CardBus cards are already handled by the PCI subsystem (and
/etc/hotplug/pci.agent ). So pcmciautils only needs to focus on 16-bit devices.

Okay, I'll try upgrading to the newest version and see if that helps.

I'm not using modules, so coldplug behaves wierd.
It doesn't react on when I insert the card (Orinoco Silver), only if I use pcmcia-cs.

Any it freezes right before it changes init level on reboot, if the card is
plugged in.
Inserting it after logging in doesn't work eighter.

what kernel are you using? please contact me directly at linux AT brodo DOT  de
and send me a complete dmesg and your .config, especially as this bug here is
unrelated to the troubles you're seeing.

The patches needed for sysfsutils and module-init-tools - where can I find
them?

Oops. Nevermind.

Created an attachment (id=57040) [details]
Updated DEPEND and added debug support

(From update of attachment 57040 [details])
Updated DEPEND and added debug support

pcmciautils-003 was released, ebuild can stay the same AFAICS.

Created an attachment (id=59380) [details]
pcmciautils-003.ebuild

Updated dependencies.

Created an attachment (id=62263) [details]
ebuild for -004

The ebuild for 004 contains a new USE flag named "staticsocket". See the new
mini-howto at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/howto.html to
check whether you have a "static" socket -- then you can enable this flag -- or
(which is much more likely) you have a "dynamic" socket -- then you should
leave this flag disabled.

pcmciautils-004 is out; so is kernel 2.6.13-rc1 finally with the necessary
changes included. However, there is at least one minor bug still in the kernel
which needs to be fixed first: check
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/brodo/patches/2.6.13-rc1/ for all
bugfixes (and feature enhancements).

I started the last changed needed to get pcmciautils into portage earlier today
- so things are looking right.

However, I get a 404 from both of the above URLS?

they're still 404s, as the files are already uploaded to the master server and
needs yet to be mirrored to the "public" kernel.org repos. Thanks for working to
get this into portage!

Ah, ok.

Btw, how does pcmciautils handle CIS? 

You mean the CIS overrides? They're not included in the pcmciautils package and
are, to my knowledge, rarely required. If the *.cis files are put into
/lib/firmware/ and CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS is set, the firmware hotplug mechanism
handles it just fine (I hope).

Ok, we'll see how it goes. Thanks.

sys-apps/pcmciautils-004 is now in portage.

A big thank you to Dominik for the initial ebuilds and the help with importing
this package. I have added a sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-cis ebuild for installing CIS
*.dat files from pcmcia-cs as well.

I was wandering, does this officially deprecates/obsoletes pcmcia-cs?

Not yet - it's provided as an experimental alternative to pcmcia-cs, but
pcmcia-cs is still the default.

hmm, as far as I can see, there is no ongoing development of pcmcia-cs, so 
this is a nice alternative indeed, if just I could get it working :)

Did you read the above howto?

The problem is, that I have to echo several values into /sysfs to get it to 
work, here is the script I have to run on each boot:

echo "0x100-0x4ff" 
> /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket1/available_resources_io
echo "0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff" 
> /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket1/available_resources_mem
echo "42" 
> /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket1/available_resources_setup_done
echo "0x100-0x4ff" 
> /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket0/available_resources_io
echo "0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff" 
> /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket0/available_resources_mem
echo "42" 
> /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket0/available_resources_setup_done

have run "rc-update coldplug default" ?

I have it in the boot runlevel, don't know if that makes problems.