Re: [LUG] FA411

[Jon Lawrence <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 2:39 am, trewornan wrote:
> I'm having terrible problems with this card on a Sony
> FX-101 laptop under Redhat 9. It appears to be totally
> dead - no reaction to removal or replacement (not
> beeping or anything else). On bootup I get :
>
> "No IRQ known for pin A of device 01:02.1 try
> PCI=biosirq
> ds: no socket loaded!"
>
> I read a help site on the web and followed the
> instructions but they haven't solved the problem.
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start - gives:
>
> "Starting PCMCIA services:
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/yenta_socket.o:
> init_module: No such device"
>
> then some stuff about insmod errors being caused by
> incorrect parameters and a reference to syslog & dmesg
> (which don't contain anything about PCMCIA).
>
> lsmod gives:
>
> "pcmcia_core 57216 0" - which I assume is the crucial
> module?
>
> cardctl ident gives:
>
> "no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices"
>
> I changed /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia so that it reads
>
> "PCIC=i82365"
>
> as suggested on the help site but this doesn't work.
>
> I'm getting extremely frustrated, can anybody help?
>
>
Hi,
I'm assuming that no other cards load either.
Have you got ACPI setup in the kernel ? iirc you need it to get the correct 
IRQ's etc.

Regards,


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