From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261164AbUBTKgy (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:36:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261156AbUBTKgp (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:36:45 -0500 Received: from dns.communicationvalley.it ([212.239.58.133]:14049 "HELO rose.communicationvalley.it") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261154AbUBTKgn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:36:43 -0500 From: Silla Rizzoli Organization: Communication Valley spa To: David Hinds Subject: Re: 2.4.25 yenta problem and small fix/workaround Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:36:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King References: <200402191222.45709.silla@netvalley.it> <20040219203234.GC1819@sonic.net> In-Reply-To: <20040219203234.GC1819@sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402201136.03774.s.rizzoli@communicationvalley.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > That is a pisser. What brand and model of laptop is this, exactly? > Did you ever use the pcmcia-cs modules on this laptop, and if so, did > they behave the same? Does this happen with a specific card? Which > one(s) are you using? Does it happen if you hot insert the card, or > only if the card is inserted at startup? What CardBus bridge do you > have (use 'lspci -v')? > > As Marcello said, the change was introduced specifically to avoid this > sort of problem, on certain other laptops. > > -- Dave The laptop is an IBM R40 2681-BDG. That means P4 1.8 GHz (non-Centrino), with chipset 845. I own two pc cards, a Cisco Aironet 350 (AIR-PCM352) and a Option Globetrotter GSM/GPRS card, driven using serial_cs. The cards always get correctly recognized in they are already inserted at boot time, but rarely if plug them in when my Gentoo has finished booting. To make them work a cardctl insert 0 (I only have one socket) usually helps, sometimes I have to unload/reload the pcmcia modules, and very very rarely a reboot is needed; this happens with 2.6.x and 2.4.25. The two PC Cards behave the same, maybe the Cisco one is a bit more picky. You'll find a complete lspci here: http://www.communicationvalley.it/lspci.txt The kernel config for 2.6.3 here: http://www.communicationvalley.it/2.6.3-oldradeon.cfg The kernel config for 2.4.25 here: http://www.communicationvalley.it/2.4.25.config I only used pcmcia-cs on a distant past, but I'm downloading them now, I'll let you know how they work very soon. Thanks, -- Silla Rizzoli Communication Valley SpA Strada Quarta 6/1D 43100 Parma Tel: +39-0521-4980 Fax: +39-0521-498080 http://www.communicationvalley.it/