OK, compiled 2.4.14 without its own PCMCIA stuff.  Compiled pcmcia-cs 3.1.29
from the sourceforge site.  Added it to the grub.conf file and rebooted.

System comes up, starts to load pcmcia and crashes hard, kernel panic.

Gist of the error was:

Process insmod (pid:: 559, stackpage=c4ac5000)
Stack: <3 rows, 7 columns of 8 characters (guess Hex numbers)>
Call Trace: <more hex numbers>

Code: 66 8b 42 02 a9 00 40 00 00 74 0f 8b 42 44 c7 00 ff ff ff ff
<0>Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrrupt handler - not syncing

This is basically what I have always gotten since 3.1.8 of the pcmcia-cs stuff
on my laptop.  Don't know if it's a compile option I screwed up or what.  Oh
well, time to try and figure out how to get grub to take me into single user
mode since I need to stop pcmcia from starting or I'll never get in.

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> OK, guess I'll give this a try.  Haven't had much success with compiling the
> pcmcia stuff from source.  Usually after compiling pcmcia from source I end up
> having the system crash on boot spitting out a bunch of Hex numbers.
> 
> > No need to step back to a 2.2 kernel, just recompile and turn off the pcmcia
> > in the kernel and use the pcmcia_cs package. There are directions on how to do
> > this.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nancy Sollars [mailto:dnancy2@qwest.net]
> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:44 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 issues and PCMCIA
> >
> > 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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