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

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:36:01PM +0100, 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.

I don't have any idea which change could have broken it. :( The only change
in the last 5 weeks to ed(4) was the argument removal of ether_ifattach/detach.
But that isn't likely to produce such problems.

Could you try a binary search starting with 2003/03/06 to find the day your problems
started? I'm looking for an ed(4) and try to reproduce this.

Joerg

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Toma?
>