Re: sony vaio laptops
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:03:46PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert van der Meulen <rvdm@cistron.nl> writes:
>
> Robert> I have a N505VE. Kernel 2.2.x is utter crap on the vaio,
> Robert> but as i'm rather running a development kernel anyways,
> Robert> i'm now using 2.4.0-test8. Apart from that, (i am not
> Robert> intimate with PCMCIA internals) - i'm not using CardBus
> Robert> PCMCIA cards - if i use 'normal' (read: older) cards, does
> Robert> the PCMCIA controller still use the cardbus bridge,
> Robert> (i.e. is it used to bridge the old system to CardBus) ?
>
> I just installed kernel 2.4.0-test11 on my N505VE. Exactly the same
> behavior as 2.2 had, unfortunately -- after an APM suspend, no
> interrupts go through to my Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet card, forcing me to
> reboot. Would you mind sending me the .config file from your
> 2.4.0-test8 build directory in private email?
Just as a note - my evil workaround to this is to always suspend to
disk (hibernate) instead of suspending to RAM. That'll not break (or
even fix, if you suspended to RAM earlier) PCMCIA.
This is one of those bugs I keep meaning to prod at but can't get a
handle on...
Dan
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