Kernel 2.4 issues and PCMCIA

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 <redhat binary rpm>)

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: <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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