I recently got a new Dell Latitude 610 and immediatley dumped W2K and installed Debian sarge. I compiled my own kernel and it was working fine. I then needed to make sure my Wireless LAN card worked, and found that it couldn't get dev resources when inserted. It would load hermes, which in turn loads the orinoco and orinoco_cs modules. Here's the error I got in syslog:
May 5 10:24:24 jcdeb2 cardmgr[342]: socket 1: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter<30>May 5 10:24:24 cardmgr[342]: executing: 'modprobe hermes' May 5 10:24:24 jcdeb2 kernel: hermes.c: 5 Apr 2002 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> May 5 10:24:24 jcdeb2 cardmgr[342]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco' May 5 10:24:25 jcdeb2 kernel: orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) May 5 10:24:25 jcdeb2 cardmgr[342]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs' May 5 10:24:25 jcdeb2 kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.11b (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) May 5 10:24:25 jcdeb2 kernel: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use May 5 10:24:26 jcdeb2 cardmgr[342]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable After fighting this for a few hours, I got a hunch...in my custom kernel I did not include ISA Bus support nor ISA Plug-n-Play support. I didn't think I needed that on what i thought was a purely PCI system. Well, apparently there is a relationship between the PCMCIA Cardbus and the ISA bus, because I recompiled my kernel adding the ISA stuff back and now it works fine. Perhaps someone can explain this to me, since I don't really get it beyond the hunch I had. thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
