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PCMCIA on Gentoo

post #1 of 10
6/7/06 at 3:00pm
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Hi, I got through most of the installation of gentoo, and I added pcmcia to rc-update. When I reboot into the kernel it stops booting when cardmgr tries to find the PCMCIA card. Any clue why this is happening? thanks
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post #2 of 10
6/9/06 at 8:03pm
Did you enable PCMCIA in your new kernel?

Built-in or as a module?


troymc
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post #3 of 10
6/9/06 at 10:32pm
yeah, you might wanna do that. gentoo can be really difficult, i am on my 48th hour right now of setting up an install. had issues with xorg6.8 so i ditched it for 7.0 and now that finished but i still gotta rebuild packages that broke b/c of the migration....thats what its doing right now. still need to get fglrx, wireless to start on boot, gensplash would be nice, java, media codecs, etc.
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post #4 of 10
6/10/06 at 12:11am
Wow you went back to give Gentoo ANOTHER shot? News to me

Seablade
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post #5 of 10
6/10/06 at 9:46am
yeah, last week or so i've been flipping back and forth between arch and gentoo. bot OSes have their shortcommings, grr....currently i am back on arch. haha, i am sure i haven't seen the end of gentoo yet though
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post #6 of 10
6/10/06 at 1:36pm
The system shouldn't lockup on the pcmcia startup even if it's not enabled in the kernel. It'll just fail. Did you try taking out any pcmcia cards first?

I've personally given up on Gentoo on the desktop. It's phenominal for my servers, but it's just too hard to maintain on desktops that are ever changing.

My main grips with ubuntu is that it's woefully slow, but Dapper with xorg7 and XGL is just as fast as Gentoo ever was for me.
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post #7 of 10
6/10/06 at 2:35pm
I use Gentoo because it fits my use for linux best. Since I consider Linux at its strongest when set up for dedicated purposes, Myth boxes, Audio Workstations, etc. I use Gentoo for that to help squeeze extra speed out of it, and because of how easy it is to set those purposes up

Seablade
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post #8 of 10
6/10/06 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
I use Gentoo because it fits my use for linux best. Since I consider Linux at its strongest when set up for dedicated purposes, Myth boxes, Audio Workstations, etc. I use Gentoo for that to help squeeze extra speed out of it, and because of how easy it is to set those purposes up

Seablade
I agree, for dedicated purposes Gentoo is the best distro i've used. It's just too hard for me to maintain it on my laptop.
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post #9 of 10
6/10/06 at 4:18pm
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Originally Posted by DiegoF
Hi, I got through most of the installation of gentoo, and I added pcmcia to rc-update. When I reboot into the kernel it stops booting when cardmgr tries to find the PCMCIA card. Any clue why this is happening? thanks

Diego,

The problem might be that cardmgr's default list of "allowed memory regions"
in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts defaults to the following;

include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

You may need to configure it differently for your laptop. If you do a cat /proc/ioports and you see something like...

0800-087f : Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller
0880-08bf : Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller

You have a problem. When cardmgr tries to probe that region, it hangs the machine. The solution is to change /etc/pcmcia.config.opts line to

include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

To exclude it from probing the 0x800-0x8ff memory range.
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post #10 of 10
6/19/06 at 4:03pm
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Thanks, that did the trick it doesn't freeze anymore.
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