[ltp] PCMCIA problem

[Thomas Hood]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:05, benjamin.morin@free.fr wrote:
> Thank you for all the advices...
> I am somehow discouraged by this thinkpad. Since sunday, I used the following
> procedure and everything seemed to work fine:
> 
> switch 600E on with xircom card plugged
> boot linux
> ...
> insmod pcmcia_core.o
> insmod yenta-socket.o
> insmod ds.o
> cardmgr -C /etc/pcmcia/config-2.4
> 
> these modules come from the 2.4.18-686 precompiled debian kernel package.
> 
> Then suddenly, this morning, it hangs when I start cardmgr...
> I cannot figure out why it works "sometimes, but not always" : the procedure is
> always the same !!!!
> 
> I have just tried with a pcmcia EtherlinkIII card and now it works (same
> procedure as above)...  Is this a problem with xircom cards?

My guess is that an interrupt conflict is causing the
hangup.  How do you have your ISA irq and ioport resources
allocated?

--
Thomas Hood

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