yenta_socket/PCMCIA problems.Re: [ltp] FYI - Linuxcare T30 certification now available.

[Robert S. Thau]

Pam Huntley writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > What distribution(s) are you working on?
 > 
 > You said that card insertions aren't noticed by cardmgr,  do you have any
 > other problems?
 > 
 > I take it you're on the T30, can you give me your model number?

FWIW, I've seen similar behavior on my T30; Specifically, after
something opens the serial port on a PCMCIA modem, cardmgr no longer
notices card ejection or insertion.  I'm running RedHat 7.3, with
userland updates but a kernel still straight off the CDs.  (I *think*
it's a 2366-91U, but that's from memory).

I've found a truly weird workaround, though --- if I kill and restart
the KDE sound demon, artsd, then cardmgr starts correctly processing
these events again.  This happens consistently enough that I'm sure it
is not my imagination, but it certainly has a "wave a dead chicken"
feel to it.  As I said in an earlier message, this smells like a
failure to share interrupts properly in one of the relevant drivers,
but I haven't done much to track it down further...

rst


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