[ltp] Problems with ThinkPad t40 and firewire pccard

[Richard Neill]

Dear Steve,

Sounds a bit like my problems on Mandrake 9.0/9.1. I found that 
rmmod-ing the iee1394 and ohci1394 modules, then re-inserting was 
necessary before modprobing sbp2. You might also find gscanbus useful 
(it requires raw1394). Another possibility is that you try it with 
Knoppix (which usually gets things right), and then look at the Knoppix 
/etc to see what they've done.

Best wishes

Richard


Steve Krulewitz wrote:
> Hi folks --
> 
> I have a ThinkPad t40 (actually t40p) running Debian unstable with kernel
> 2.4.21 + laptopkernel patches, and I am having a very difficult time getting
> my firewire pccard working.  It is an IBM branded pcmcia card, which has the
> supported Cherri chipset.  I've been testing with both my iPod and an
> external powered firewire drive.  I also believe I am using the card service
> kernel module.
> 
> When I insert the card I get no beeps, so I do cartctl insert 1 and get a
> beep.  This causes the ieee1394 and ohci1394 modules to load and everything
> looks OK at this point.  However, the sbp2 modules never loads, which I
> believe is needed to have the attached drive show up as a SCSI device.  So I
> manually modprobe sbp2 and it loads, but does not log any new SCSI devices.
> I then try the rescan-scsi-bus script as well as addscsi -s, and neither
> find the attached device.
> 
> I've tried having the card inserted at boot time as well as compiling
> ieee1394 and ohci1394 into the kernel, but it still does not work.
> Attaching and removing devices to the card produces no messages in the
> logfiles.
> 
> I am at a loss of what else to try.  I am also not sure where the problem
> lies -- am I dealing with a pcmcia problem, or a firewire problem?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> cheers,
> -steve
>