[ltp] various RH 7.3 problems

[Christopher L. Dailey]

My 3Com PCMCIA card works. Just a thought, but did you have the card inst=
alled=20
when you first installed RedHat 7.3? I noticed when doing one of many=20
experimental installs that having the cards in during install made a=20
difference, especially the ethernet card.

Chris D.

On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:18 pm, David Margrave wrote:
> I have tried EVERYTHING to get a pcmcia modem working with redhat 7.3 o=
n
> my tp600.  I have tried:
>
> 1) excluding any combination of interrupts you care to think of from
> /etc/pcmia/config.opts
> 2) rebuilding the kernel without pcmcia modules, bulding pcmcia_cs
> separately
> 3) Changing /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to use i8xxx (whatever it is) istead
> of yenta_socket.
> 4) Tried feeding the i8xxx module the 'irq_list' option
>
> Nothing helps.  The behavior ranges from 'freeze until card is removed'
> at best, to ' spew kernel trace to console', to 'freeze hard' at worst.
> ~ Ocassionally there is some muttering in the logs like 'unable to
> reserve io xxx irq xxx for serial_cs'.
>
> I thought, 'I read something about that "yenta" think only liking
> cardbus cards and not really supporting older cards at this stage,' and
> tried the modem in a dell laptop also with rh 7.3 and it works fine.
>
> I would advise any thinkpad 600 user to stay away from redhat 7.3 and
> 2.4 kernels at this stage, that is, if you have a pcmcia modem you want
> to use.
>
> Dave
>
> Chris Dailey wrote:
> |Except for having to add the sound module for the CS4232 I didn't have=
 any
> |problems loading RedHat 7.3 onto the TP 600E. As usual there are a som=
e
> |quirks with RedHat KDE. Currently having problems setting up Tripwire,=
 KDE
> |mail seems to have a problem if I set the GPG passwd to stay resident.
> |Haven't run across any others though. Oh yeah, I forgot. I can't use t=
he
> |dialup if I have my ethernet card installed. Not really a big deal but=
 it
> |drove me nuts for a couple of days figuring it out.
> |
> |Chris Dailey
> |
> |On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Steve Tell wrote:
> |>Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:47:45 -0400 (EDT)
> |>From: Steve Tell <tell@telltronics.org>
> |>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> |>To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> |>Subject: Re: [ltp] various RH 7.3 problems
> |>
> |>
> |>Um, which thinkpad model gave you these troubles?
> |>
> |>Anyone tried RH 7.3 on a TP 600E?
> |>
> |>I found RH7.2 to be smooth as glass on a 600E (2645-UN1) but would li=
ke
> |>the newer gnome and KDE apps of 7.3.
> |>Any issues with the new kernel or anything else?
> |>
> |>Steve
> |>
> |>On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, David Margrave wrote:
> |>>As with all their releases, redhat didn't quite get it right with re=
dhat
> |>>7.3 as far as laptops go.  It took considerably less hacking than
> |>>previous releases to get everything going, but there are still probl=
ems.
> |>>
> |>>1) sometimes it freezes at boot time while 'mounting other filesyste=
ms'
> |>>if there is a pcmcia modem in the slot at boot time.  I've removed t=
he
> |>>/etc/rc.d/rc3.d scripts that appear to have anything to do with remo=
te
> |>>mounting (nfs, autofs, etc).  But it still does it, so I'll keep
> |>>deleting init scripts until I find it.
> |>>
> |>>2) booting without a modem in the slot and then inserting it after
> |>>booting will also make it freeze up (sometimes you can recover by
> |>>removing the modem, sometimes you have to take out the battery!).  I=
t
> |>>complains about "usb-uhci-c: interrupt... host controller halted, tr=
ying
> |>>to restart".  Could it be that I'm failing to exclude an interrupt f=
rom
> |>>the pcmcia.opts file?  If redhat worried about minor stuff like this=
 in
> |>>their installer instead of making pictures of Alan Cox in a krispy k=
reme
> |>>hat...
> |>>
> |>>3) sometimes it fails to bring up the lo interface, saying 'someone =
else
> |>>is already using 127.0.0.1' or some such nonsense.
> |>
> |>--
> |>Steve Tell  tell@telltronics.org
> |>
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