Re: [ACPI] Report on latest ver.(404) Dell Ins. 8100

[Phil B. <ph...@bl...>]

> 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