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Description of Problem: I can't do a network install on my Toshiba Libretto L1 notebook because there are problems with PCMCIA. The installer only offers me "hard disk installation" after I boot from the PCMCIA and PCMCIAdd floppy images (off a Sony USB floppy drive). Here is the partial, hand copied output from the console 4 with the PCMCIA error messages: ... <4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:12.0. Please try using pci=biosirq <4>Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0 <4>Socket status: 30000020 <6>cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x10ec, device 0x8139 <4>PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) <4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:12.0. Please try using pci=biosirq <30>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: starting, version is 3.1.31 <27>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: config error, file 'config' line 1053: syntax error <30>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: config error, file 'config' line 2129: no function binding <30>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: watching 1 sockets <30>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: Card services release does not match <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7 <6>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. <28>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: could not open /var/run/cardmgr.pid: <28>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: fopen(stabfile) failed: <30>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device <28>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: fopen(stabfile) failed: <30>Oct 3 14:00:43 cardmgr[55]: exiting -------- I tried booting with "linux pci=biosirq" but that got me a kernel panik. I think it uses a Toshiba TOPIC100 CardBus bridge. I tried installing with 2 different CardBus fast ethernet cards: * Ambicom AMB8100 * LevelOne FPC-0106TX If you need further information about the Toshiba Libretto L1, let me know (hardware etc).
Based on the kernel messages given, I'm pretty sure you have to use pci=biosirq to get the interrupt routing to work so that we can probe and use any cardbus devices.
OK, I tried that and got a kernel panic. I'll try it again and write down the exact kernel panic message (it probably belongs on the linux kernel mailinglist).
The same PCI bridge-related issue with a Libretto L5/080 TNKW with an ACPI-compliant PCI bus and ALi M1533 PCI-to-ISA bridge. 16 and 32-bit cards can be inserted and show up with "cardctl status" but all drivers report IRQ 0 for the device. 32-bit ethernet cards even show up in the ifconfig list with the correct MAC-address but can not be configured with ifconfig.
I have a libretto 100ct and I also get this problem. I've tried 7.2, 8.0 and 9.0 each displaying the same error. Since the pcmcia floppy that is the only floppy device with the libretto and doesn't work after booting, I've used autoboot for these three distributions. Please note that using pci=biosirq doesn't have any effect. (It didn't kernel panic for me) I don't get the problem when I use the pcmcia boot disk with 6.1 and 6.2. Both nfs install fine. I'm using a 3com 3cxfe575bt ethernet card. But I believe it's the pcmcia that's the issue.
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