[ltp] Re: Thinpad T23 PCMCIA slot

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:01:40 -0600 (CST), John
<john@skynet.darktalker.net> wrote:
> Ok, I had to Downgrade from SlackWare 10 to Slackware 9.1 to use the
> "S3 Savage" Driver.
> 
> Yesterday when I upgraded back to SlackWare 10, I found the vesa driver is
> enough to get X windows going in 1024x768x24
> 
> Now I am dealing with the PCMCIA slots, I  recently bought Linksys WPC54G
> ver. 2, when i plugged the card in, i get no power, ndiswrapper doesn't
> dosn't even load the interface.
> 
> I did dmesg>dmesg.txt and I get the fololowing message
> Intel ISA PCIC probe: <6>pnp: Device 00:1a activated.
> 
>    Intel i82365sl DF ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
>      host opts [0]: none
>      host opts [1]: none
>      ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,10 polling interval = 1000 ms
> cs: pcmcia_socket1: unable to apply power.
> 

you need to switch to the cardbus driver.  it looks like you are using
the bridge in 16-bit compatibility mode.  either change your pcmcia
driver to yenta_socket or you may have to set the pcmcia bridge mode
in the bios.

Alex