Re: cbb0: CardBus card activation failed

From: Koop Mast <kwm_at_rainbow-runner.nl>
Subject: Re: cbb0: CardBus card activation failed
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:46:00 +0100

> Op ma, 10-01-2005 te 23:55 -0700, schreef M. Warner Losh:
> > In message: <1105227700.25419.14.camel_at_heater.rainbow-runner.nl>
> >             Koop Mast <kwm_at_rainbow-runner.nl> writes:
> > : I got myself an 3Com wireless card based on the Atheros 5212 chip.
> > : After inserting it in the first pcmcia slot the kernel tells me this:
> > : 
> > : cbb0: CardBus card activation failed
> > 
> > This line has zero content.  It just means that the driver didn't
> > attach, but doesn't tell me why...  What are the lines before it.
> 
> Sorry for the wait, I wrecked my imap when I upgraded it.
> Here its is with hw.cbb.debug=1, hw.pccard.debug=1, hw.cardbus.debug=1
> and boot -v. The complete dmesg is here:
> http://prisma.rainbow-runner.nl/kwm/dmesg-ath .

Thanks for the info.  Sadly, I wasn't able to get anything useful out
of it :-(.  I'll look into adding some better debugging to try to sort
out what's going on.  It is safe to assume that if you insert/remove
the card N times into slot 1, it will fail every time, right?

Warner