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Re: tlug: Problems with 3Com 3C575-TX



On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> wrote,
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
> > 
> > > However, I made some more experiments, which gave some vage
> > > clues:
> > > 
> > > (1) I could reproduce the fatal freezing of the machine.  It 
> > >     happens if I insert the CardBus card again after ejecting 
> > >     it once.
> > > 
> > > (2) Similarly, whenever I insert the non-CardBus PCMCIA card 
> > >     after I ejected the CardBus card, the machine also
> > >     freezes, but unlocks when ejecting the card again (this
> > >     is not the case for (1)).
> > > 
> > > So, ejecting the CardBus card leaves the machine in a
> > > strange state.  
> > 
> > well, cardbus support is considered 'beta' still, it could just be that
> > the 505's pcmcia card controller is one of the ones that's not fully
> > supported yet...?
> 
> Meanwhile I checked the HyperNews Forum for PCMCIA and it
> seems that somebody else had the same problem with a Toshiba
> Tecra 730xcdt - but nobody seemed to have any suggestions.
> I guess, I'd better compile pcmcia-cs with the debugging
> option enabled and have a look what is going on inside.

I wonder if the problem is specific to this card, or if other cardbus
cards would have similar problems?  Does anyone have, say, an APA-1480
SCSI cardbus card and a Ricoh cardbus controller like the Vaio does?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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