Bugzilla – Bug 128854
Plugged pcmcia card not found
Last modified: 2006-02-08 21:47:21 UTC
The pcmcia NIC is plugged before the system is started. While booting this NIC isn't detected. This is even the case if /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia:PCMCIA_COLDPLUG_REINSERT=yes as mentioned in /usr/share/doc/packages/pcmciautils/README.SUSE As a workaround I've written a shell script called in /etc/init.d/boot.local which does several pccardctl eject; sleep 2; pccardctl insert calls till the card is there.
Hi Lars, once again your 'most important customer'? ;) Does it also help to increase the sleeping time in post_init_pcmcia_socket() in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/scripts/functions.pcmcia_socket? Tell me more about the NIC. Does it need a CIS upload? You could check the state in your workaround script. Before every insert do ls -l /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/*/* /sys/bus/pcmcia/devices/*/* grep -H "" /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/*/* /sys/bus/pcmcia/devices/*/* and look if something changed.
You're right Christian. Again the same customer. The NIC uses the pcnet_cs module. And from the messages I don't see any CIS upload. This is a very simple and cheap NIC. I'll check the state while booting the system next time I'm closer to the system. Is it possible to only check for one file?
Created attachment 54647 [details] Output of the suggested ls command while the system is up and the card was detected via the described workaround.
Created attachment 54648 [details] Output of the suggested grep command while the system is up and the card was detected via the described workaround.
Any news? Did you try toincrease sleep time as suggested in comment 1? I cannot do anything with the current set of information.
I'm sorry. But atm I don't have access to that system. I'll have again in around two weeks.
Anything new here?
I'll be on-site the next days and provide the missing information. Sorry, I didn't had a change in between.
Regarding your question in comment #2: Increasing the sleep value in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/scripts/functions.pcmcia_socket function post_init_pcmcia_socket() line 34 to 10, 20, 30, and 150 doesn't change the behaviour.
Lars, please have a look at bug 148648 comment 2. Would be nice if you could provide HW information in the same style. I try to collect all instances of this problem there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148648 ***