Re: [Acx100-users] no such device?

[Andreas M. <an...@rh...>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:41:45PM +0200, Dominik Kuhlen wrote:
> On Sunday 22 June 2003 16:17, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > *rings a bell*
> >
> > Then what's the output of lspci -H1 or others?
> > I assume your BIOS is a bit broken and doesn't properly update
> > CardBus hotplug stuff or so...
> > (I've read this in some acx100 posting or so)
> >
> > And maybe this "small" problem even causes the binary driver to not
> > be able to load the card properly.
> >
> > If so, then you'd be a good test case for our OSS driver to make sure
> > that we DO detect cards even in such a broken environment...
> >
> > Oh, and BTW, just in case you don't happen to think about that:
> > of course a BIOS update might help here, too...
> > (but of course we'd be happy to be able to test our driver with the broken
> > BIOS!)
> This is in fact a (very) difficult environment:
> My ACPI dsdt is mangled, so I had to patch the kernel for user-written dsdt
> But with this option my orinoco wlan card didn't work. Workaround: append
> acpi=nopci option to the kernel.
Ugh, yet another notebook with completely screwed power management...
This is not a Dell again by chance?
On my Inspiron 8000 I don't get ANY kind of suspend to work... only standby
works, which is dangerous if you leave the notebook in the bag.

You should submit your DSDT to the DSDT database at acpi.sf.net...
(if it's of any use)

> I'm currently testing different Kernels (no acpi support at all)
> Probably this resolves the problem, but if it does:
> How to puzzle all these fragments into a full-featured stable kernel?
Good question. 
Good luck anyway! :-\

> Just another question about the rev-eng of the binary driver:
> Do you have an special debuggers, programs that help you?
> As far as i know the binary driver are compiled with debugging support,
> but just shooting with gdb at the binary doesn't show any pleasant result.
Well, IDA is a pretty good tool.
objdump -D might also help...

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