Bill Crawford wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Art Ross wrote: > > > PCMCIA has problems when it tries to start at boot time. A review of > > the situation revealed that two modules were loaded; "yenta_socket.o" > > and "ds.o". If I manually insert these modules into the kernel and > > start pcmcia services, everything is fine. > > I'm a little puzzled by this as I had Enigma (and now the new beta > with an errata package for grep, of all things) working fine on my > laptop. > > What exactly is the problem you're having "at boot time" ? > > > How can I correct these two module deficiencies? Is there a module > > configuration file that I can add some lines to? > > These should get loaded automatically. I can't check what Enigma is > doing as I have Skipjack on the machine now, but you might start by > looking in the init script for pcmcia. > > > Best Regards, > > Art > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Bill, I've done a bit more research into my problem and this is what I've found. As part of the boot process, PCMCIA services first load the necessary modules. One of these modules is the "yenta_socket" module. When loaded it picks up some parameters from a configuration file "/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia". Located in this file is a parameter called; PCIC_OPTS which is set to a value of "pci_irq_list=11,11". A brief review of the PCMICA HOWTO revealed this parameter is setting the irq's allowed by the pcmcia cards. Now what happens during the initialization of PCMCIA, the yenta_socket module is supposed to be loaded with this parameter but for some reason the wrong parameter is being picked up from somewhere. The loading of yenta_socket with the pci_irq_list=11,11 doesn't occur. Instead the yenta_socket attempts to load with a parameter named "param_pci_irq_list". Obviously the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file isn't being used. Where might this pcmcia configuration file be located. There must be a mistake in the parameter definition in it. Hope this gives some better light to my problem. Thanks, Art _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
