Bug 98802 - PCMCIA/IRQ problem on Sony laptops with kernel 2.4.20-8, but not with vanilla kernel
Summary: PCMCIA/IRQ problem on Sony laptops with kernel 2.4.20-8, but not with vanilla...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel-pcmcia-cs
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-07-08 21:54 UTC by Dan Stanzione
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-10-26 03:59:01 UTC
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Description Dan Stanzione 2003-07-08 21:54:11 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408

Description of problem:
There seem to be several PCMCIA related bugs, but I couldn't find 
this one exactly, and this may be at the root of others.

I have a Sony R505JE laptop.  Pcmcia cards worked fine with RH 7.2
and 2.4.7 and 2.4.18 kernels.

When upgrading to RH 9.0, I received the following message at boot:



This message could be repeated at any time by doing a "modprobe yenta_socket". 
 Naturally, this prevented other PCMCIA drivers for 
loading, so no cards would work (I primarily tested with an Orinoco
wireless card).  Since this had worked in the past, after much 
experimenting I tried building a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel, and lo
and behold, it worked right.  

So, it appears to be something in the RH 2.4.20-8 kernel.  
Trying the newer builds of 2.4.20 from RPM did not fix the 
problem.  Rebuilding from Redhat kernel source RPMs
also did not fix the problem. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-8 and later builds.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Redhat 9 on a sony R505JE
2. Start PCMCIA services or modprobe yenta_socket
3. Try and use any card.
    

Actual Results:  Cards non-functional, /var/log/messages reports:

kernel: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt A of device 01:02.0.


Expected Results:  Card drivers should load, card should work :)

Additional info:

I would be happy to provide my kernel config files from the kernel
I was able to build that fixed the problem, and I would be happy to 
volunteer to test new rpms or patches on my hardware, since sony 
has so many #$@! configurations.

Comment 1 Dan Stanzione 2003-07-08 22:01:12 UTC
Oops, I must have deleted the boot message; in the original description, the
third paragraph should read:
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When upgrading to RH 9.0, I received the following message at boot:

kernel: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt A of device 01:02.0.

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Sorry, stupid user error :)






Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2004-06-18 21:33:04 UTC
Removing security severity; This is not a security issue.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-10-26 03:59:01 UTC
end-of-life, please reopen if reproducable with a currently supported distribution.


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