OK, that was interesting. Rebooted the system and after going through the hassle of having to manually fsck the drive I booted into the old kernel (ended up in init mode 3) and it booted up, started pcmcia and bang, here I am and it recognized the card that I inserted. So, um, what? Guess I musta missed something in the kernel (2.4.14), but I can verify that it is 3.1.29 that is running right now. So, guess I can screw with it like this for now and try again later (takes over an hour to do a compile) to redo 2.4.14 and compile pcmcia 3.1.29 to link to it (thought I had since I pointed it to the headers for it, but musta only linked to the version I have running now, 2.4.7-10 ) Kevin Brown wrote: > > 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: > > 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" > > > To: > > > 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. > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss