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chris_bomholt
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 Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject: pcmcia cardbus problem |
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Hi all,
First let me just say that gentoo is by far the best distro I have ever used - emerge is amazing! ... unfortunately, I am a gentoo newbie, and everything seems to work except for this...
after restarting card manager... /var/log/messages:
| Code: | Nov 13 18:17:53 penguin cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
Nov 13 18:17:53 penguin cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
Nov 13 18:17:53 penguin cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Nov 13 18:17:53 penguin cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. |
after inserting card...
| Code: | Nov 13 18:21:40 penguin cs: pcmcia_socket0: cardbus cards are not supported.
Nov 13 18:21:54 penguin cs: pcmcia_socket1: cardbus cards are not supported. |
kernel options I have turned on for pcmcia hardware:
| Code: | bus options -->
pccard support -->
16 bit PCMCIA support
Load CIS updates from userspace
PCMCIA control ioctl (obsolete)
32-bit cardbus support
pc-card bridges
Cardbus yenta compatible bridge support
cirrus bridge support
i82092 brige support
i82365 bridge support
databook tcic bridge support |
Card is Netgear wg511 pcmcia ... laptop is a sony pcg-953a, kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r5
I didn't enable kernel drivers for prism54 as I've read there is a lot of trouble with those... was thinking about using ndiswrapper instead. If anyone has a suggestion about that, I would be happy to hear it!
things worth noting: always in linux, I've had to boot with acpi=off on this laptop or else I cant boot up.. (dunno if that can help any)
Thanks in advance,
Chris |
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widan
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Location: Paris, France
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| Are there any error messages in dmesg related to PCMCIA/Cardbus/Yenta ? Cardbus mode requires a PCI interrupt, and this problem can be caused by interrupt routing problems (and yes, it can be caused by the bad ACPI). |
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chris_bomholt
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:37 am Post subject: re |
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| Code: | Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:01:02.1 [104d:80df]
Yenta: no PCI IRQ, CardBus support disabled for this socket.
Yenta: check your BIOS CardBus, BIOS IRQ or ACPI settings.
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 0
Socket status: 30000006 |
Any suggestions? I'm not real familiar with ACPI.. in browsing forums i've heard of people using something like a pci=biosirq boot argument, so maybe i should try something like that to help it grab a pci interupt...? I'll also have a look through my bios..
Thanks for the response
Chris |
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chris_bomholt
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:03 am Post subject: |
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tried pci=biosirq to no avail.. same errors
any idea why the acpi seems to be goofy on this system? bad firmware? - oh well.. company laptop anyways 
thanks,
Chris
edit:
it's amazing what a little googling can do... http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/blacklist.html - my laptop falls under the fx150 category (shitty luck i guess) |
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ChopChopMasterOnion
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Location: North Texas
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:19 am Post subject: |
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Have you tried adding pci=noacpi to your kernel line in your boot loader? This solved a similar problem for me on a Thinkpad 600E.
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