Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 101685
(ACPI) Xircom RBEM-56G-100 on Tecra 8000 no go with acpi
Last modified: 2013-07-02 22:13:41 EDT
Description of problem: Cleanly installed Severn via nfs with linux askmethod nofb acpi=off. The system reboots, boots linux and when it tries to start the pcmcia service it hangs with messages that is doesn't know an IRQ for Pin A and B of the pcmcia card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): no idea How reproducible: Just reboot the laptop and wait. Always happens. Steps to Reproduce: 1. turn on laptop 2. let it run or add runlevel 3 in grub menu 3. wait till laptop hangs after "Starting pcmcia" Actual results: Expected results: That it properly activates the pcmcia slot & Xircom card and boots fine so I can enjoy Severn :) Additional info: The problem does *not* occur when I add pci=noacpi to the grub menu line. Then the pcmcia services are started correctly and the Xircom card is recognized and properly activated (I can ping another host).
Can you post the output of 'acpidmp' and 'dmidecode'?
/proc/interrupts and dmesg -s40000 output from the success case could also help. Also, if you've got a serial port on this model it would be great if we can get a look at the boot messages from the failing boot.
Created attachment 95281 [details] Output of dmesg -s40000 on Toshiba Tecra 8000 with pci=noacpi
Created attachment 95282 [details] Output of acpidmp on toshiba Tecra 8000 with pci=noacpi
Sorry for the delay guys. I've moved on to Fedora Core Test3 with kernel 2.4.22-1.2097.nptl. Just ran up2date and tried again with acpi=on. Problem remains. Here are the final lines from the boot process Starting pcmcia: PCI: Emabling device 00:0b.0 (0000 -> 0002) PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A on device 00.0b.0 - using IRQ 255 PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.1 (0000 -> 0002) PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B on device 00.0b.1 - using IRQ 255 Yenta IRQ list 8498, PCI irq0 Socket status: 30000020 <laptop hangs indefinitely> /proc/interrupts: [root@tecra root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 28959 XT-PIC timer 1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 1 XT-PIC MS Sound System 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 11: 800 XT-PIC usb-uhci, Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97, Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (#2), eth0 14: 3146 XT-PIC ide0 15: 22 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 Output of dmidecode is: [root@tecra root]# dmidecode RSD PTR found at 0xF1130 checksum failed. OEM TOSHIB PNP BIOS present. The output of acpidmp and dmesg -s40000 is attached.
This has been resolved partially. Please see the comments at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107458