Trying to get RTL 8139 PC CARD network card working

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Not having much luck getting my 8139-based PC CARD working.

It insists on reporting the following:

Base: 0x200/256
IRQ: 10

But both of these are very suspicious, because under Windows, the TI
Cardbus controller is reported as also having Irq 10 (can devices share
interrupts???), and there are several things in the IO port map at
0x200-0xFF.

I tried reassigning it as follows:

slay -f devp-pccard
devp-pccard -a 0xFA00 -l7

(irq 7 is free, and FA00 is where it was reported in Windows)

but when I do ‘pin’ again, the same values are reported

In my experience, when things like peripheral cards don’t work properly,
it is usually a resource conflict. I can get it started using the
defaults, but it won’t read/write to the network properly (the activity
light will go on, but you can’t ping). I have set the tcpip parameters
correctly once it starts – I just suspect the ports or IRQ are not set
right.

Any tips?

Thanks.

–
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“Laissez faire.”

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Hi Brad,

Have you checked for any info in the QNX Knowledge Base?
The following KB entry may provide some help:

http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?10336

Regards,

Joe

Brad Aisa <baisa@brad-aisa.com> wrote:

Not having much luck getting my 8139-based PC CARD working.

It insists on reporting the following:

Base: 0x200/256
IRQ: 10

But both of these are very suspicious, because under Windows, the TI
Cardbus controller is reported as also having Irq 10 (can devices share
interrupts???), and there are several things in the IO port map at
0x200-0xFF.

I tried reassigning it as follows:

slay -f devp-pccard
devp-pccard -a 0xFA00 -l7

(irq 7 is free, and FA00 is where it was reported in Windows)

but when I do ‘pin’ again, the same values are reported

In my experience, when things like peripheral cards don’t work properly,
it is usually a resource conflict. I can get it started using the
defaults, but it won’t read/write to the network properly (the activity
light will go on, but you can’t ping). I have set the tcpip parameters
correctly once it starts – I just suspect the ports or IRQ are not set
right.

Any tips?

Thanks.

–
Brad Aisa <> baisa@NOSPAMbrad-aisa.com
http://www.brad-aisa.com/ > – PGP public key available at:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Brad+Aisa&op=index

“Laissez faire.”