Re: ed1 (pccard ed) broken since somewhere in march - does not attach to media properly (LINK LED being off and card not working at all)

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg, I take it your looking at this already ? 8-)

-DR
On Mar 21, 2004, at 6:36 AM, Tomaz Borstnar wrote:

> Hello!
>
> 	For about 2 weeks (dont hang me for not being precise enough!) I have 
> problems using my NE2000 compatible 16-bit PCMCIA card. In the past it 
> worked flawlesly - every time. But in the last 2 weeks this is getting 
> very rare.
>
> If the card is present while booting the kernel then I have about 
> 50/50 chance  of working. If I insert it later i have 20 to 40% chance 
> to work right away. Thing manifest itself as not turning on the LINK 
> LED on the card even though dfly properly recognizes and announces it 
> as ed1 card. If I manually detach it and insert it again dfly locks up 
> and power button is the only way to proceed. Usually I activate it by 
> running dhclient manually, but when LINK is not turned on even 
> ifconfig magic does not help.
>
> Today I reinstalled everything from ISO 20040317b, but no luck. 
> Unfortunately I can not go into DDB to check things there.
>
>
> Tomaž