Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:52:16 -0300
From: Jose Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Interrupt conflicts with Debian on Lib U100

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:40 -0800, Jonathan Paxman wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:40:18 +1000
> From: "Jonathan Paxman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Interrupt conflicts with Debian on Lib U100
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I wonder if anyone else has run into interrupt conflict issues on the
> U100 with Linux (Debian Etch 2.6.12 in my case).  I have had a look
> around and this problem seems to some up with several Toshiba Laptops,
> but I haven't found a satisfactory solution.
> 
> The curious thing is that I have no problems when hard booting.  But
> if I soft reboot, IRQ 11 goes down, taking ethernet, wireless,
> firewire and USB 2 with it.
> 
> I have looked at the BIOS, and it looks like you can't change the IRQ
> assignment of the PCI Bus.
> 
> If anyone has come across (and hopefully fixed!) this problem, I'd
> love to hear from you.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Jon

I've seen no problem in mine..

libby:/proc/irq/11# ls -l
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 ath%d/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 ehci_hcd:usb1/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 eth0/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 Intel 82801DB-ICH4/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 ohci1394/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 uhci_hcd:usb3/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 uhci_hcd:usb4/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-04-06 01:44 yenta/
libby:/proc/irq/11# uname -a
Linux libby 2.6.15 #2 PREEMPT Fri Mar 17 04:54:23 BRT 2006 i686
GNU/Linux
libby:/proc/irq/11# 

.. and right not I found a bug in madwifi.. "ath%d"?? :)


> Some relevant bits of dmesg on failure:
> 
> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
> wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
> ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 11
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 11 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 11
> irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

hmm.. there's an issue here related to acpi..
maybe the hardware is left in a way the kernel just booted can't
control..
have you tried to pass "irqpoll" to the kernel on boot?

tip: compile your own kernel like I did.. we have to tune a kernel for
U100 together.. :)

[]
JA Tavares




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