Kernel 2.4 issues and PCMCIA

Nancy Sollars plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:44:12 -0700


id step back to kernel 2.2 then go look at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2405

the pcmcia-cs page ..

latest pcmcia driver set

is :- 3.1.29

I had the same issues with kernel 2.4 with a Dell Latitude 266XT

Regards

Nigel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Kernel 2.4 issues and PCMCIA


> Ok, well I decided to update my version of linux from RH6.2 to 7.2 to get
> newer libs and whatnot.  Install went ok, was able to keep the size down
to
> 650MB (uggh) and got it to boot.
>
> Unfortunately it seems that there is an issue with all 2.4 series kernels
and
> pcmcia stuff on my laptop (Panasonic Toughbook CF-25mkII, P150).
According to
> dmesg:
>
> Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:10.1
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:13.0
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:13.1
> Yenta IRQ list 0e98, PCI irq0
> socket status: 30000046
>
> That last stuff is basically repeated 4 times (one for each socket I
have).
>
> doing 'cat /proc/pci' shows all four slots:
> Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
> Cardbus bridge: ricoh co ltd tl5c466
>
> I tried searching the web for answers, but the closest I got was Torvalds
> saying that they have it working, but it is from more than a year ago.
>
> Anyone have a clue as to how to fix this?  Without pcmcia support my
laptop is
> useless since I can't connect to anything in linux with it now.
>
> P.S. All this because I wanted to be able to use my Wireless Orinoco card
in
> linux and windows, sigh.
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