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PCMCIA doesn't work in docking station



I am using RedHat 4.2 on an NEC Versa 6200NT notebook.  I have a PCMCIA
Ethernet card, a 3Com 589D, in one of its two slots.  At first, I
couldn't get the PCMCIA to work, so I went out to the PCMCIA site to get
the latest version (2.9.11), compiled and installed it.  On the laptop
it works fine.  Here are the pertinent boot messages:
Nov  5 10:48:46 spoon kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 2.9.11
Nov  5 10:48:46 spoon kernel:   Kernel build: 2.0.30 #1 Tue Apr 22
10:49:45 EDT 1997
Nov  5 10:48:47 spoon kernel: Intel PCIC probe: 
Nov  5 10:48:47 spoon kernel:   TI 1131 CardBus at 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, mem
0x68000000, 2 sockets
Nov  5 10:48:47 spoon kernel:     host opts:  [serial irq]
Nov  5 10:48:47 spoon kernel:     irq list (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10,11,15
status change on irq 15
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: starting, version is 2.9.11
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: watching 2 sockets
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding
0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a20-0x0a27: clean.
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff:
excluding 0xc0000-0xcbfff 0xf0000-0xfffff
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: initializing socket 0
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: socket 0: 3Com 3c589D LAN Adapter
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o'
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c589, port 0x340, irq 3, Auto
port, hw_addr 00:60:97:8D:FA:C2
Nov  5 10:48:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: executing: './network start eth0'


However, when I boot in the docking station, the PCMCIA fails:
Nov  5 10:37:47 spoon kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 2.9.11
Nov  5 10:37:47 spoon kernel:   Kernel build: 2.0.30 #1 Tue Apr 22
10:49:45 EDT 1997
Nov  5 10:37:48 spoon kernel: Intel PCIC probe: 
Nov  5 10:37:48 spoon kernel:   TI 1131 CardBus at 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, mem
0x68000000, 2 sockets
Nov  5 10:37:48 spoon kernel:     host opts:  [serial irq]
Nov  5 10:37:48 spoon kernel:     irq list (scanned) = 3,4,7,9 status
change on irq 9
Nov  5 10:37:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: starting, version is 2.9.11
Nov  5 10:37:49 spoon cardmgr[84]: watching 2 sockets
Nov  5 10:37:49 spoon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding
0x208-0x20f 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f
Nov  5 10:37:49 spoon kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a20-0x0a27: clean.
Nov  5 10:37:50 spoon kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff:
excluding 0xc1000-0xcbfff 0xf0000-0xfffff
Nov  5 10:37:50 spoon cardmgr[84]: initializing socket 0
Nov  5 10:37:50 spoon cardmgr[84]: unsupported card in socket 0
Nov  5 10:37:50 spoon cardmgr[84]: version info: "U^P^F ^I^A`^P4^U`^U",
"U^P^F#^I^A^P", "m^R^_^U", ""
Nov  5 10:37:50 spoon cardmgr[84]: manfid: 0x0004, 0x0222


I just changed this laptop to RedHat 4.2 from Debian 1.2, though both
are running kernel 2.0.30.  With the old Debian, I was running PCMCIA
2.9.5.  But it worked fine both in and out of the docking station.  So
now, how do I get it to work with RedHat?  Any ideas on where to start?  

Thanks,
Curt



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