[ltp] PNPBIOS success! (was: oops at bootup)

[Ken Restivo]

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Worked like a champ! Thanks! After 3 months of suffering with a hobbled 600E-2645-4AU, now my  serial port works, my parallel port works, and even irda works. And it's stopped locking up at random intervals whenever parport_pc was loaded. Plus, the audio has stopped chop-chop-chop-chopping. Yay!

setpnp didn't have any effect, but setpnp -b worked.

Although I'm still puzzled by a few things.

First of all, I'm confused about what tpctl does that's different from what setpnp does? I'm not sure why tcpctl was pretty much useless for setting up these hardware resources, but setpnp -b worked perfectly?

Secondly, I've still got strange IRQ problems. IRQ 11 is used by uhci and i82365. In /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, I've excluded irq's 3,4,5,7,11. However, my orinoco_cs insists on binding to irq 11, and *insists* that it is [exclusive]. Exclusive?  Then, orinoco_cs complains about lots of "null interrupts". Well, of course, it's it's sitting on an irq line that's used by tons of other things! IRQ's 10 and 9 seem to be wide-open: nobody's using them AFAICT, but pcmcia cards won't go near them.

Forcing modprobe orinoco_cs irq_list=10 didn't help; it still insisted on using irq 11. It's addicted to the thing; they're in love, and I can't keep them apart.

And, yes, I've "setpnp 12 irq off irq off" (IBM3765 is an audio controller? I thought it was an FEP for an S/390!) so as to free up all the interrupts it was hogging. Whatever that 3765 was doing, it doesn't seem important to audio: sound output works better without it.

Any suggestions?

- -ken
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On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:49:14PM -0500, wes schreiner wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
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> >I pulled out Thomas Hood's pnpbios patch from the 2.4.18-ac3 kernel patch, 
> >creating my own little "pnpbios-only" patch. It applied and built: so far 
> >so good. 
> >Of course the simplest possible case (pnpbios-only patch) oopses at bootup 
> >:-(. I'm now tracking down a ksymoops to find out why.
> >
> >Before I chase this rabbit too long:
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> >	1) Is there, anywhere, a clean, normal, non-ac, pnpbios-only patch 
> >	somewhere? I've got kernel 2.4.18 with the stock Woody patches, and 
> >	that's what I want to stick with for the time being. So any working 
> >	pnpbios patch against a stock 2.4.18 and/or Woody kernel would be 
> >	great.
> > 
> >
> 
> As Tino pointed out, you can get the pnpbios functionality if you are 
> building your pcmcia modules, it's just a configure option to the pcmcia 
> source. Since you are on Debian I'm guessing you are already using 
> make-kpkg to build your kernels. Just apt-get the pcmcia-source package 
> and edit /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/debian/rules. Find the calls to 
> "Configure" and add "--pnp" to those lines (I think the first one is the 
> one usually used, the second is for debugging). Then make-kpkg 
> modules_image as usual, and you will have pcmcia modules that provide 
> pnpbios support. If you need pcmcia modules anyway this is a lot easier 
> than extracting a patch. I have this working with 2.4.20 mainline with 
> only the low-latency patches applied.
> 
> wes
> 
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