Solution: [Re: [ltp] Thinkpad 240 Cardbus problems ...]

[Charles E Taylor IV]

Just in case someone else has this problem, I'm posting the solution.

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:38:15 -0400
Charles E Taylor IV <tomalek at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I've managed to get everything to work on my Thinkpad 240 EXCEPT my
> Dlink cardbus ethernet card.  The card's fine, as it works in my 770Z. 
> When I try the card in my 240, I get this in my logs:
 
> cs: cb_alloc(bus 0): vendor 0x8086, device 0x7192
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(14000000-10bfffff) for 00:00.0

Here's the solution (found on, of all places, the linux-kernel mailing
list):

Add "pci=assign-bussses" to the boot parameters fot the kernel.  For
example (booting with grub on Redhat 9):


title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-9)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-9 ro root=LABEL=/ pci=assign-busses
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-9.img

Now, the card works fine!

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