PCMCIA subsystem seemingly dead on Breezy install

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Yesterday I had my laptop power down and when it came back up, PCMCIA was no
> longer working.  The one slot showed up to the OS, but when I plugged and
> unplugged cards, nothing happened.
>
> Then I remembered setting my memory down.  I recently upgraded to 1GB RAM,
> which was more than my SWAP space.  This is important because after
> upgrading, Suspend to Disk took on a level of risk that makes Vegas look like
> a good bet.  So, to attempt to lessen the workable memory to squeeze inside
> the 960M SWAP partition, I added "mem=940M" to my kernel boot line in grub.
>
> Since removing that line makes my PCMCIA subsystem operate correctly again, I
> can only assume that this parameter is what broke it.  Can anyone share why
> this might be?

Some kind of BIOS memory hole?
Some kind of PCI bus address space limitation?
*shrug*

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