[ltp] Re: pcmcia on the T42p

[Konstantin]

hi,

try the IRQ settings from this sites, they worked for my T40 fine.

http://www.newt.com/debian/thinkpad-t40p/
http://www.w-m-p.com/linux-on-t40.html

Greetz

Konstantin


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:39:29 -0600
Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 00:27, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > You mentioned you couldn't get your T42 to see any pcmcia events with a
> > Cisco Aironet 350 card.  I just tried it on mine and it worked fine.  I
> > didn't boot with it and plugged it in and it came right up.  cardctl eject
> > and re-inserted it about 10 times and each time it came back up fine.
> 
> More details and resolution.
> 
> When I tried Debian stable (with a 2.4 kernel), everything worked great
> including audible "beeps" when I inserted/removed PCMCIA cards.
> 
> I upgraded to Debian testing and then unstable with the 2.6.7 kernel and
> PCMCIA devices would only work if inserted prior to booting. This
> matched my Fedora Core v2 experience with the latest errata kernel, or
> with 2.6.7-mm.
> 
> With Debian testing/unstable using the Debian stable 2.4 kernel
> everything was peachy.
> 
> I found that loading the BIOS default setting that made everything work
> (minus the audible beeps). The default BIOS settings has a screen where
> all IRQs are *forced* to be IRQ 11, and sure enough, cat
> /proc/interrupts showed everything on 11. I had changed it to "Auto"
> instead of "11" and cat /proc/interrupts showed everything spread
> around. Everything seemed to work great, except PCMCIA.
> 
> Resetting my BIOS back to defaults and now PCMCIA hotplug is working.
> 
> It seems that it *should* work with interrupts not all clumped up on
> IRQ 11 (and indeed, Windows does work with that config), but for now
> at least, my PCMCIA slots are working.
> 
> Dax Kelson
> 
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