Bug 22127 – cardmgr fails to find proper resources for pcmcia nic

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Daniel B. Habersat 2003-06-02 18:47:37 UTC]

Trying to re-install gentoo on laptop (currently running gentoo).  I can't get
my 3com 10/100 pcmcia card (3cxfem656C) to load properly.  There seems to be a
problem with resources being allocated.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot off Gentoo LiveCD, default kernel (tried with 1.2, 1.4-r2, 1.4-r3, 1.4-r4)
2.(from install instructions):modprobe pcmcia_core
3.modprobe i82365
4.modprobe ds
5.cardmgr -f

Actual Results:  
cardmgr[4339]: watching 2 sockets
cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for CardBus socket 0
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000-000001ff>
3c575_cb: RequestIO: Out of resource

Expected Results:  
uh, properly allocated the resources while loading my driver, allowing me access
to the bounty that is the www (or, at the very least, my local gateway)

My computer works perfectly (I can still boot into gentoo on the hd); I know the
nic is good.  Have tried manually loading the driver I normally use, 3c59x, to
no avail.  

I've also tried booting with gentoo kernel, dopcmcia option.  The install
detects a network device and attaches it.  Doing 'net-setup eth0' and inputting
my network params for the laptop yield the following (similar result doing it
manually with ifconfig):
eth0: Could not reserve IRQ 0
SIOSCIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
Type "ifconfig" to make sure the interface was configured correctly."

[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-06-02 19:28:36 UTC]

could you try the smp kernel please 

[Comment 2 Daniel B. Habersat 2003-06-02 20:55:11 UTC]

Wow, that worked!  Thanks

[Comment 3 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-06-03 11:16:19 UTC]

forwarding to latexer,  
 
smp kernel is vanilla pcmcia 

[Comment 4 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 03:36:24 UTC]

Please test with the latest LiveCD an reopen this bug if the problem persists.