Re: NI DAQCard6036 and SuSE 10

On 22/02/06 09:37, Thomas Pissulla wrote:
> Hello Richard,
> 
> sorry, that my answer comes so late, but no at least with some more
> detailed information...
> 
>> do you have cardinfo installed? 
> 
> No, when I tried to install cardinfo, I found, that it's not more
> supported. To see the card information I use "pccartctl info". This is
> part of the pcmciautils-package (see below for the output).
> 
>> I have a
>> daq6024 in a laptop running fedora. What I do, I run the following
>> script BEFORE inserting the card (the script includes RTAI modules):
>> [...]
> 
> After running your script (I removed the RTAI lines, cause I compiled
> comedi without RTAI) the comedi-driver is load (as it should be, and
> the /dev/comedi[s]) are created.
>  
> After inserting the card, "dmesg" says:
> 
>         cs: memory probe 0xb4000000-0xb40fffff: excluding
>         0xb4000000-0xb400ffff
>         
> "udevmonitor" says:
> 
>         UEVENT[1140596818]
>         add_at_/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:06:04.0/0.0
>         UDEV  [1140596818]
>         add_at_/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:06:04.0/0.0
> 
> and "pccardctl info" gives:
> 
>         PRODID_1="National Instruments"
>         PRODID_2="DAQCard-6036E"
>         PRODID_3=""
>         PRODID_4=""
>         MANFID=010b,0245
>         FUNCID=255
> 
> 
> so at least the card is detected.
> 
> But then no comedi drivers as "ni_mio_cs" are loaded. as I remember
> well, on Suse 9.3 this happened after inserting the card even without
> loading the comedi module before...
> 
> Does anybody of you has an idea, how to solve this problem? 
> 
> I think, because of the changings in hotplugging (udev/hotplug) there is
> nothing, that runs the comedi start script now. 

Does the attached patch help?  It adds a device ID table to the 
ni_mio_cs driver for kernel 2.6.13.

Comedi-CVS compiles with this patch, but I am unable to check that it works!

While on the subject of PCMCIA, its worth noting that there are some big 
changes to PCMCIA support in 2.6.16 that will affect Comedi PCMCIA drivers.