Problem with 1394 Cardbus

>This all is actually guesswork. My own notebook does not have
>on-board IEEE 1394, and the CardBus support on my notebook has
>been unproblematic for a very long time now. I use a CardBus OHCI
>card.

I've recently been playing around with different FW cardbus cards and I'm
having some reliability issues. Specifically, I've found the following:

1. Dell C640 laptop (2Ghz, 512MB RAM, Ati Radeon M7 video)
   - w/ PCMCIA enabled 802.11b mini-pci wireless card
   - Guslink 3-port FW cardbus card (OHCI)

2. Mandrake 9.1 with the Cooker 2.4.22 kernel (updated 1394 drivers)

3. /ALL/ hotplug services (/etc/hotplug) are DISABLED on purpose so I have to
manually load the kernel modules to help debugging.

If I run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start" with the firewire card installed, the
machine will hang solid. If I start PCMCIA services without the card
installed, the PCMCIA subsystem and wireless card will come up fine. If I then
install the FW card, the system will usually initialize the FW card and
everything will work ok. But, occasionally, the system will still lock up.

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this issue or should I take this up with
the PCMCIA folks?

--David

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Received on Tue Oct 7 01:52:11 2003