[iPAQ] pcmcia timing

    I've been having some intermittent trouble with my pcmcia network card
being recognised when I plug it in (running v0.17). It is a NE2000
compatible Apollo 10/100 Fast Ethernet card. (It was all they had in the
shop that sounded at all hopeful!).

    More often than not this card is taken to be 'anonymous memory'. Having
read Jamey's reply of 10th October I've tried a more conservative set of
timings in the MSC2 register (0xFFFAFFFA) and this seems to have helped.
From my 5 seconds reading of the Intel developer's manual I'd have guessed
that the initial value for this register ought to be as conservative as
possible 'cos you don't know yet what is plugged in? Are there wider
implications of doing this (for example is there any rom or flash which is
controlled by the same register?) Is there anyone who can claim to
understand what's really going on with this stuff?

    Ken
Received on Mon Oct 23 08:07:52 2000