[ltp] Fedora Core 1 on Antique 760 series

[Richard Griffith]

Glyn Kennington wrote:

>Tino Keitel wrote:
>  
>
>>>on. The next serious problem, and a real show stopper, is PCMCIA won't 
>>>work. The only error reported is a pair of the familiar 'No IRQ known 
>>>for interrupt pin A of device 00:0n.n. Please try using pci=biosirq.' 
>>>messages. Attempting to follow the advice and pass pci=biosirq to the 
>>>kernel results in kernel panic.
>>>      
>>>
>>Do you use kernel pcmcia support (yenta.o) or the drivers from
>>pcmcia-cs (i82365.o)? Dave Hinds told me that the former won't work on
>>a 76x model with a Cardbus card, since the Cardbus bridge in these
>>models uses ISA IRQs. While the kernel driver requires PCI IRQs, the
>>pcmcia-cs driver has a fallback for ISA IRQs.
>>    
>>
>
>I've had the same problem with my 760ED, whenever I try using a Cardbus
>card (PCMCIA cards work OK).  Always `no IRQ known for interrupt pin',
>and the message about pci=biosirq, and no improvement (but no kernel
>panic) despite trying all possible parameters for pci=foo.  I also found
>exactly no difference was made by switching between built-in kernel
>drivers and pcmcia-cs.  I haven't tried anything more recent than
>version 3.2.2, though.
>

I've definitely been using the yenta_socket.o with every other distro on 
these models. I don't use any cardbus cards, just pcmcia, but the Fedora 
Core 1 kernel doesn't like this setup apparently. I don't rembemer 
having to switch to the separate pcmcia-cs drivers since back in the 
kernel 2.2 days. This 
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2003-July/000152.html 
sounds similar, but I didn't dig in far enough to find out since this 
was just one of those spur of the moment impulsive tests with a new 
distro. I doubt I'll pursue this further at the moment, but thanks for 
the observations.

-Richrd