Floppy drive not detected on Dell C840

[vandy_187]

I am unable to get my floppy drive to work on my C840 laptop. dmesg displays nothing regarding a floppy drive, and i have no /dev/fd1. This is a floppy that is hotswappable, meaning it is made to be taken out and replaced with a cd drive. The floppy drive is proven to work on the laptop under Windows XP and to use a startup disk. Also, a CD writer is detected and works perfectly in the same slot. Any ideas or anything I should check or try? This is my dmesg output:

Linux version 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)) #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 19:45:36 CST 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000027fe2800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027fe2800 - 0000000028000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
639MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 163810
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 159714 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fde50
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d20811 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde64
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d20811 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 28000000:d6da0000)
Detected 1794.827 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 163810
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda1
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0150c000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c043b000 soft=c0433000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Tue Aug 1 11:16:55 EDT 2006 : initialized
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 642808k/655240k available (2408k kernel code, 11856k reserved, 600k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3592.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=17961625)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0800)
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 2299k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbfee, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0880-08bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 17 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x800-0x805 could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x808-0x80f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x806-0x807 has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x810-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x860-0x87f has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x880-0x8bf has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x8c0-0x8df has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x8e0-0x8ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf000-0xf0fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf100-0xf1fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf200-0xf2fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf500-0xf5fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf600-0xf6fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf800-0xf8fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf900-0xf9fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x900-0x91f has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xbf40-0xbf5f has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: c000-cfff
MEM window: fc000000-fdffffff
PREFETCH window: d8000000-e7ffffff
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.0
IO window: 0000e000-0000e0ff
IO window: 0000e400-0000e4ff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
MEM window: f4000000-f5ffffff
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.1
IO window: 0000e800-0000e8ff
IO window: 00001000-000010ff
PREFETCH window: 32000000-33ffffff
MEM window: f6000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: e000-ffff
MEM window: f4000000-fbffffff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-34ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.1 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1190911011.150:1): initialized
squashfs: version 3.1 (2006/08/19) Phillip Lougher
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 )
vesafb: NVidia Corporation, NV17 () Board, Chip Rev A2 (OEM: NVidia)
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f120
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cf165, set palette = c00cf1ea
vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 ba03 c003 c103 c403 c503 c603 c703 c803 c903 cc03 ce03 cf03 d003 d103 d203 d303 d403 d503 da03 ff03
vesafb: VBIOS/hardware doesn't support DDC transfers
vesafb: no monitor limits have been set
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xe8880000, using 7500k, total 32768k
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0d: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
input: DualPoint Stick as /class/input/input1
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad as /class/input/input2
hdb: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2612, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf80
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf20
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[f8fff000-f8fff7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
libata version 2.00 loaded.
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Logitech Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
JFS: nTxBlock = 5043, nTxLock = 40346
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[474fc0003d128041]
ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 58846 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1028:00d5]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:01.0, mfunc 0x05033002, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xe000 - 0xffff
cs: IO port probe 0xe000-0xffff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xf4000000 - 0xfbffffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x34ffffff
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.1 [1028:00d5]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:01.1, mfunc 0x05033002, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xe000 - 0xffff
cs: IO port probe 0xe000-0xffff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xf4000000 - 0xfbffffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x34ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at e93e2c00.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Adding 1598456k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1598456k
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
eth0: setting full-duplex.
smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask
smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask

[DrAgOnTuX]

post the output of following commands:

[vandy_187]

You'll notice the date is off. I think my CMOS battery is going out. I don't think that has anything to do with the floppy drive issue though.

[DrAgOnTuX]

[vandy_187]

I could have swore I loaded floppy.ko with modprobe before. Apparently not, because that did the trick. I will add floppy to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Thanks again guy.