Kernel 2.4 issues and PCMCIA

[Kevin Brown]

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.