Bug#249766: PCMCIA 3c589B ethernet card NOT DETECTED
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 20:33 -0500, David F. Strauch wrote:
> Thanks for getting back with me on this issue. I've ran across an identical
> fix while attempting the same install with RHL 9.0. I do feel that this is
> caused by an irq conflict as according to /proc/interrupts I have Toshiba's
> ToPIC95 PCMCIA slots, the ESS Maestro 2E sound card and the USB ports all
> sharing irq 11. But when I exclude either irq 11 or irq 9 (as you
> suggested) by adding "exclude irq x" (where x=9 or 11) to
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts on reboot I still continue to get the same error
> when the card is installed.
>
> In fact, if I remove the card and reboot /proc/interrupts still shows all
> three devices sharing irq 11 even though I had excluded it's use.
>
> When I insert the card while booting /var/log/messages reports 4 clean IO
> port probes and one clean memory probe before locking.
>
> I've also read about making changes to the bios controller mode from
> "auto-select" to "CardBus/16 bit" without any resolution. If I can be of
> any help, please let me know.
Okay, hmm. Well, I got the exact value from the list in the
PCMCIA-HOWTO and it wasn't for your exact laptop model, so it's
possible that you need to exclude something else. It is also possible
that the standalone pcmcia-modules-* package (instead of
kernel-pcmcia-modules-*) would work better.
--
Pelle
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