From: Phil B. <ph...@bl...> - 2002-04-06 14:48:48
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> I don't know whether you'll find this helpful, but when I got my > notebook (Gericom 1st Supersonic M6-T) end of February, it took me a > while to get PCMCIA working with 2.4.18 and acpi-20020225 which was > the current ACPI patch at that time. > > I tried all three available PCMCIA "modes" (including PCMCIA support > into the kernel, compiling it as a module, and compiling the PCMCIA > support seperately from the PCMCIA sources package), and only the last > option worked. But with the 2.5.5 kernel and acpi-20020225, including > PCMCIA right into the kernel (CONFIG_PCMCIA=y) worked just fine. > > I also needed to specify that IRQ 11 should be used for PCMCIA cards > (using option "irq_list=11" when loading the i82365 module) because > otherwise cards would get the IRQ 3 assigned which did not work. > > But then again, your problems may have different cause. > Looking at the pcmcia-cs documentation it looks as though the kernel pcmcia drivers cannot use PnP bios calls for resource management. This may be the reason it is not working. I am downloading the latest package now to see if it works. Phil |