Re: pcmcia: ds: no socket driver loaded! ? Help

dhinds_at_sonic.net
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:29:40 GMT

Larry Gagnon <lagagnon@fakeuniserve.com> wrote:
> I have recently installed RedHat Linux v7.1, Kernel 2.4.2. on a Canon
> 490CDT older notebook (Pentium 133, 32M ram). All works fine except
> the pcmcia cards. According to Windows 95 the PCMIA socket is a Cirrus
> Logic PCIC compatible, hardware version 254, I/O at FCFC-FCFF.

> Linux bootup messages and dmesg give:

> "Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22
> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
> Intel PCIC probe: not found.
> ds: no socket drivers loaded!".

> cardctl ident says "no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices", however lsmod
> shows "pcmcia_core" of 43456 bytes and probe tells me:

> "PCI Bridge probe: Cirrus D6729 found, 2 sockets.".

This distribution (RH 7.1) does not support the Cirrus PD6729 bridge.

You can either install an older (yes older) distribution like 6.2, or
install a current pcmcia-cs driver package (use Configure --force to
force it to install drivers on top of your existing ones)

-- Dave