Re: 2.4.25 yenta problem and small fix/workaround

From: Silla Rizzoli (s.rizzoli_at_communicationvalley.it)
Date: 02/20/04

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    To: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:36:03 +0100

    > 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/
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