Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 85931
pcmcia card drivers do not load.
Last modified: 2008-01-17 12:49:42 EST
Description of problem: hardware platform: sony vaio fx190k An adaptect scsi card (1460) is plugged into a pcmcia slot. The KDE control center reports that no pcmcia controller is detected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. open kde control center, information, pcmcia 3. Actual results: no pcmcia controller Expected results: 1. active pcmcia controller 2. correctly detected scsi card 3. correctly detected devices hanging off the scsi card Additional info:
can you attach dmesg output and lspci -vv output ?
I also couldn't get pcmcia working with install bootdisk, here's the mail to phoebe list ( no solution so far ) On a Siemens pcd-5nd with 3com megahertz 3ccfem556b pcmcia card ( listed as supported in hardware compat list ) I can't perform a network install. The system had freebsd before, so it's working fine. Some messages from alt+f3 console : intel pcic probe: cirrus .. isa-to-pcmcia at port .., 2 sockets loaded i82365 found .. loaded ds inserted pcmcia_core.o, i82365.o, ds.o .. I manually select the network driver, as it says it can't find it. Console says 'inserted 3c574_cs', but then returns to asking the driver.
Created attachment 90614 [details] as requested. knoppix 3.1 (1-1-2003 release) detects this setup with no problem. including scsi card in pcmcia slot 1.
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0 your bios did not assign an interrupt to your cardbus controller. The Red Hat kernel has a patch to not use such cardbus controllers because on a bunch of systems using it will lock the system up.....
which redhat kernel has a patch? my system is not locking up, so i'm wondering about the connection of this information to this bug report. are you reporting that a fix exists and is available somewhere? thanks very much for the help and clarifications.
committed the comment too soon. if i understand correctly, you're saying that this cardbus type isn't activated at all because of problems it causes, elsewhere. since knoppix handles it just fine, is there a way that i can get it working in my system as a localized or customized kernel? any recommendations/specifications on what to switch in building a customized kernel? thanks, Arjan.
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