Description of problem: I needed to try noprobe in gin gin beta 4. Either I minsunderstand it or it is broken. How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Need an old Sony Vaio such as PCG-SR1K (SR5K in US) with external CD ROM drive 2. linux ide1=0x180,0x386 (other options here if necessary like 'text') noprobe 3. continue through keyboard and language selection Actual results: Get a message about not finding a driver and needing a driver disc. Apparently it is loading the cardbus drivers despite the noprobe option. The same happens with nopcmica: is this a separate bug? Expected results: It doesn't probe and hence doesn't load cardbus drivers and works. Additional info: A workaround is to add pci=off into the line of options. The ide1 option was possibly not necessary. It was the first thing I tried when "linux text" didn't get further than "where are the drivers?" because once upon a time it used to be necessary. It was not necessary in subsequent releases to that. I just added it as a first port of call and forgot to try without it.
noprobe has always probed pcmcia controllers and I'm probably going to leave it like that. nopcmcia seems to work here, though. You actually get messages on tty4 about yenta_socket loading if you boot with 'linux nopcmcia'?
'nopcmcia', not 'nopcmica'.
jkatz: yes bill: typo :)
Okay, I see why. Added some filtering for after our probe in CVS. Workaround in beta4 is a combination of both noprobe and nopcmcia.
I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened.