Re: PCMCIA firewire?

[Andreas T. <to...@po...>]

Hi,

matt newcomb wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> 
> I've got a newer technolgies firewire 2 go pcmcia card (ohci based).
> It's on the list of supported cards from the pcmcia-cs folks, but with
> release 3.1.23 of the pcmcia package it does not appear to be recognized.
> cardctl ident returns "no information" for that card.
> 
> I'm wondering has anyone had success with a pcmcia firewire card and if so
> what card, kernel, and pcmcia release are you using?

I have 'some'experience with pcmcia-cs and firewire. I use a 'Cherri' 
FW card with this pci id's: 
pci 0x104c, 0x8019, (man-id, card-id).

I bring it at least to the recognition. But not further, don't know why. Really.
My platform is a Wallstreet Powerbook, kernel is plain 2.2.18  with
ieee1394 patches (latest from cvs) and some mac specific things. I can
insert/eject the card with cardinfo/cardctl with no problem. But I have
a self-id receiving problem. Maybe it is endian related?

Is your card recognized by the pci bus? (lspci -vv) If so, and your
pci-id is different than the one above you can enter a section like this
in /etc/pcmcia/config:

card "your-card"
  pci man-id, card-id (from cb_alloc in /var/log/messages after starting
the pcmcia service) 
  bind "ohci1394_cb" (if it is really a ohci based and not a pcilynx
one, otherwise you may can try to bind it to "pcilynx_cb"

It is may not correct the id stuff, but having a look into ohci1394
should show you some id's as well.

I'm not on the machine now, so some things may not be 100% correct.

Andreas