Digby Tarvin wrote: >Hi Nick and Richard, > >Thanks for both of your comments... > >On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:46:27PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > >>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:58:16 +0100 >>Digby Tarvin wrote: >> >> >> >>>But when I try to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start on gentoo I get >>> PCMCIA support detected. >>> Starting pcmcia... >>> cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA >>> modules built or support compiled into the kernel >>> >>> >>Theres a pretty telling error message. "cardmgr failed to start" >> >> > >I figured it wasn't a good thing. But what exactly does it tell you? > >At the moment I am thinking that I havn't yet got the kernel to see >the PCI to Cardbus adapter at all, rather than just having problems >with a card not being recognised. > >
I think this is right. >So I assume that my initial problem is a fairly fundamental failure >to recognise the the PCI to Cardbus device corresponding to the >SuSE boot messages: > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.28 > kernel build: 2.4.10-4GB #1 Fri Sep 28 17:20:21 GMT 2001 > options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] > Intel PCIC probe: <4>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of devicei > 00:06.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:06.1. Please try > using pci=biosirq. > > Toshiba ToPIC97 rev 20 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:06, mem 0x10000000 > host opts [0]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x11] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] > [lat 168/176] [bus 18/18] > > Grepping the 2.6 sources for "ToPIC97" indicates you need the "yenta" driver. It is probably best to compile that into your kernel, not as a module. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
