[ltp] Netgear problems

[Thomas Hood]

--- "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> wrote: 
> for several weeks I have been trying to get my Netgear FA510c Cardbus
> Network card to work under Debian Potato with kernel 2.4 packages
> installed (it works in win2k).

Are you using integral PCMCIA support?  There is also PCMCIA
support available as a separate package.  Try whichever one
you didn't try before.

> First scenario:
> When I start the computer with my Xircom RM56G PCMCIA modem card
> inserted, this card is recognized correctly, but I get the error message
> "Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: no plug and play devices found".

Harmless, so long as your config.opts file is set up correctly
to exclude resources used by other devices.

> When I replace the card with the network adapter I get the message
> "cs: unable to map card memory!" twice.
> 
> Second scenario:
> When I start the computer with the Netgear card inserted, I get two
> error messages "cs: unable to map card memory!"

That's pretty clear.  The card driver is looking for a 
memory region of a certain size and none is available.

You might want to start adding printks to the driver
code and to cistpl.c to find out how much memory the
driver is looking for.  

> if I replace the
> network card by the Modem card I also get the "cs: unable to map card
> memory!" error messages so that the modem also won't work.

This means that the netgear driver didn't fail gracefully.

Thomas

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