PCMCIA crashes QNX RTP 6.1.0 on Laptop Toshiba CDT320

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Hi,

I’ve just downloaded and burned the ISO of QNX RTP 6.1.0. I am trying to
run it on my laptop. It’s a Toshiba CDT320 (Pentium 233MMX).

When installing it, if I boot from the cd and choose the default
options, the installation crashes with the following message :

Shutdown[0,0] S/C/F=11/4/2 C/D=ff80e517/ff841050
[0]PID-TID=1-2 P/T FL=00019001/24820000
“/daily/x86/boot/sys/procnto”

followed by a dump of x86 context[000007b0],
instruction[ff831f741] and stack[00000007dc]


After playing with the various ‘safe modes’ and ‘driver disables’, I
have found that I must disable the pcmcia/cardbus enumerator in order to
be able to continue the installation procedure.

Now, QNX is installed on my laptop and is running fine but,

  • each time I boot, I must disable the pcmcia enumerator
  • if I try to launch devp-pccard, the OS freezes totally and I must
    power-cycle the computer

Since I’m totally new to QNX, I really don’t know where to start. Is it
a known hardware problem ? Is it a driver problem ? Maybe someone can
help me.

Thanks,
Nicolas Vanderavero.

2

On Toshiba laptops you need to go into the BIOS and set the PCMCIA
interface to CardBus/16bit. If this doesn’t work, please post the
output from ‘pci -v’.

Previously, Nicolas VANDERAVERO wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

Hi,

I’ve just downloaded and burned the ISO of QNX RTP 6.1.0. I am trying to
run it on my laptop. It’s a Toshiba CDT320 (Pentium 233MMX).

When installing it, if I boot from the cd and choose the default
options, the installation crashes with the following message :

Shutdown[0,0] S/C/F=11/4/2 C/D=ff80e517/ff841050
[0]PID-TID=1-2 P/T FL=00019001/24820000
“/daily/x86/boot/sys/procnto”

followed by a dump of x86 context[000007b0],
instruction[ff831f741] and stack[00000007dc]


After playing with the various ‘safe modes’ and ‘driver disables’, I
have found that I must disable the pcmcia/cardbus enumerator in order to
be able to continue the installation procedure.

Now, QNX is installed on my laptop and is running fine but,

  • each time I boot, I must disable the pcmcia enumerator
  • if I try to launch devp-pccard, the OS freezes totally and I must
    power-cycle the computer

Since I’m totally new to QNX, I really don’t know where to start. Is it
a known hardware problem ? Is it a driver problem ? Maybe someone can
help me.

Thanks,
Nicolas Vanderavero.

3

Wonderful :slight_smile: I changed the setting to CardBus/16bit and now it runs
perfectly.

Thanks a lot,
Nicolas Vanderavero.

Hugh Brown wrote:

On Toshiba laptops you need to go into the BIOS and set the PCMCIA
interface to CardBus/16bit. If this doesn’t work, please post the
output from ‘pci -v’.