Re: PCMCIA on Vaio R505TL

[Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:48:47PM -0700, Matt Baker wrote:
> This laptop only has a single PCMCIA slot, and the only two PCMCIA devices I 
> have are an external CD-ROM and the ethernet card I'm trying to use. I
> used the external CD-ROM to boot off the CD and installed 3.3. I had
> to do an FTP install since the install script couldn't read the files
> off the CD (my first sign of trouble looming), despite having booted
> and loaded the install script off of that very drive. I don't recall
> exactly what the message said...
> 
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xfd860/0x7a0
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA" rev 0x00)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xd8000/0x4000! 0xdc000/0x4000!
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82815 Hub" rev 0x11: rng active, 7Kb/sec
[snip]
> cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "Ricoh 5C475 PCI-CardBus" rev 0x80pci_intr_map: no 
> mapping for pin A
> : couldn't map interrupt

This looks a lot like my R505TE, which I managed to get working thanks
to hints from Jordi and Todd Miller.  Please check out my post to misc@:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=104802683517488

The fundamental point is to use config(8) to change pcic0's BIOS mapping
to 0xcc000/0xc000.

I still have never managed to use the PCMCIA CD-ROM for anything but
boot floppy use.

-andy