Memory Conflict (re-posted)

[Stretchy]

OK am reposting my problem as no-one has answered me; HELP !

OK, The History;

I have a Shuttle with a PCI cardbus adapter which works, I know I had a Prism card and all was fine. I needed to upgrade to 'G' so thought I'd get an Atheros because, I was led to be believe, they have no compatabilty issues, well they do with my system!

OK useful o/p below....................

dmesg;

PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(e6010000-e6005fff) for 02:00.0
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ath_pci: cannot reserve PCI memory region


lspci -v;

1:06.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 7
Memory at e6001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: e6002000-e6003000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: e6004000-e6005000
I/O window 0: 0000d100-0000d203
I/O window 1: 0000d300-0000d403
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc. Ubiquiti Networks SuperRange a/b/g Cardbus Adapter
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 7
[virtual] Memory at e6010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2


My PC is a Shuttle with 256 MB of ram and the AGP aperture is 64 MB.

I'd like to know if its possible to get his to work i.e. can I reserve a region in lilo.conf so it'll work; or is there any other method?

Regards to all from Bristol (U.K)

Stretchy.

[oz]

OK am reposting my problem as no-one has answered me; HELP !

You should "bump" your old post every few days rather than creating another thread because it's against the forum rules to post duplicates:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ums-rules.html

Note that I've deleted your duplicate thread.

oz

[Stretchy]

Well nuff said, no replies and I've tried all the previous ideas from similar posts, even tried calculating the 'reserve' window with no results.
Seems to work with my Auditor CD OK, so looks like I'll be giving Slax 11 a miss, shame nice distro! Oh I've bought a cheap laptop too so hoping my Atheros will work on there. I'd still appreciate any help tho' as have nothing so far and feel I've supplied all the relevent info, ah well......................

Stretchy.

[MasonM]

You could try editing the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file to see if you can tell it to include the memory range, but I suspect you'll still run into some bus issues. It may be worth a try.

[Stretchy]

You could try editing the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file to see if you can tell it to include the memory range, but I suspect you'll still run into some bus issues. It may be worth a try.

Oh! a reply!

Many thanks, I kind of know that tho' and it is which memory range to include ??
I also thought I could do that in LILO, but have tried with no avail, have even lessened the AGP aperture to 32MB, still no joy and have officially given up and brought a laptop.

I would still very much like to know how to calculate the memory range ?
Is it like this; include memory 0xe0100000-0xe17fffff ??

If so I'll give it a bash.

Many mant thanks for the reply mate.

Cheers

Stretchy.

[Stretchy]

You could try editing the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file to see if you can tell it to include the memory range, but I suspect you'll still run into some bus issues. It may be worth a try.

Hello MasonM any idea what numbers I should be using ??

Stretchy