sageFool wrote: > > I have a Inspiron 2500, with debian/unstable installed on it. I'm > running the 2.4.17 kernel (downloaded the source package and > recompiled a million times)
Me too, but I've only compiled about a thousand times :-) > I have PCMCIA support turned off in the kernel and am using the 3.1.31 > (latest) sources to the pcmcia_cs stuff. Not a good idea. > My current thoughts are that the PCI is amiss in someway. On start up > I get: > > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent > Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent > PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/244c] at 00:1f.0 > PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(f4300000-f42fffff) for 01:03.0 > PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(f4300000-f42fffff) for 01:03.1 "Unknown bridge resource" is OK, "Failed" is not... > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.31 > kernel build: blah.... > options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] btw, apm doesn't work on this machine - should be: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] (I'm presuming the [pm] means ACPI) > Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe: > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:03.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:03.1 So far, so good... > Bridge register mapping failed: check cb_mem_base setting > no bridges found. > ds: no socket drivers loaded. Bingo - does dmesg mention Yenta anywhere? Should have come right after these messages. If I have understood correctly, you have to enable PCMCIA in the kernel to get Yenta. > Problems I have: Trying to set options in /etc/defaults/pcmcia I tend > to end up with messages that they are unknown options, even though I > am getting them out of the howto/docs. For example > cb_mem_base=0xf4300000 produces: param param_cb_mem_base unknown. You shouldn't need to specify it. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
