PCMCIA slot and belkin wireless network card

[eamonn_f]

I have looked around and cannot find a how to so i am posting here.

I have a sony laptop with a CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller which i believe is my PCMCIA slot.

i also have a belkin f5d7010xx which is my wifi card.


i have emerged pcmcia-cs hotplug and ndiswrapper and wireless-tools. i have enabled pcmcia/cardbus support.

i cannot get the card to show up or the pcmcia slot either.

does anybody have a guide on how to set up a pcmcia slot and a wifi card or can anyone tell me.

please please please!

eamonn



here is the result to some commands:

cardctl info
open_sock(): No such device

dmesg

Linux version 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (root@tux) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3-r6, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #7 SMP Tue Sep 7 10:54:15 GMT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff70000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff70000 - 000000001ff7f000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff7f000 - 000000001ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff80000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ff80000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 130928
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126832 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6fc0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 SONY K7 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1ff7a842
ACPI: FADT (v001 SONY K7 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x1ff7ef64
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1ff7efd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 SONY K7 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda4
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c050d000 soft=c0505000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 2790.351 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 513332k/523712k available (2781k kernel code, 9620k reserved, 1112k data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5537.79 BogoMIPS
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.52 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0: online
domain 0: span 01
groups: 01
domain 1: span 01
groups: 01
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd890, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 4) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 10) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 6) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] (IRQs 9) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] (IRQs 9) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK8] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 24)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PPB_._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [pm]
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 4
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.3[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 6
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.1[B] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ 6
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.2[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1094555899.768:0): initialized
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
udf: registering filesystem
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (60 C)
Warning: Processor Platform Limit event detected, but not handled.
Consider compiling CPUfreq support into your kernel.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 5.9
Sensor: 37
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> multifinger detection
-> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ttyS0 at I/O 0x1028 (irq = 9) is a 8250
ttyS1 at I/O 0x1040 (irq = 9) is a 8250
ttyS2 at I/O 0x1050 (irq = 9) is a 8250
ttyS3 at I/O 0x1060 (irq = 9) is a 8250
ttyS4 at I/O 0x1070 (irq = 9) is a 8250
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
8139cp: pci dev 0000:00:12.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x9000, 08:00:46:cf:1e:00, IRQ 3
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e000b000-e000b7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.2[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: irq 11, pci mem e0820800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 14:31:44 2004 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4091 buckets, 32728 max) - 300 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[080046030199670b]
Adding 506036k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

[eamonn_f]

i got the slot working and now lspci lists the devise as a broadcom wifi card.


its showing up as a BCM4306. i have google and it seems like ndiswrapper should work but i cannot get it to.

[bookstack]

Hi, I've read your post on the PCI 7420 chipset. You said you have succeeded to driver the pcmcia slot. How could you do that, could you tell me more details ?

BTW, have you figured it out to use secure disk module PCI7420?