[ltp] PCMCIA on R40?

[Charles E Taylor IV]

> I'm having problems with PCMCIA on a Thinkpad R40.  I'm using kernel
> 2.4.22 in a Debian unstable environment.
 
> The problem seems to be with interrupt assignment.  Any card that I plug
> in shows "IRQ 0" and the interfaces don't seem to like that.  I've tried
> three different cards (Orinoco wireless, Zoom modem, and National
> Instruments PCMCIA-GPIB, which is the one I'm really trying to get
> working).

I had a similar problem on a Thinkpad 240 (IRQ 0 assigned anytime I
plugged in a cardbus card), and the linux kernel mailing list suggested
this as a fix:

* Pass "pci=assign-busses" to the kernel when you boot up.

This cured the problem for me.

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