Bug#377753: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: pcmcia bridge detected, cards are not

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 07:30:07PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686
> Version: 2.6.17-2
> Severity: important
> 
> My pcmcia and cardbus cards work fine in 2.6.16 but are broken in
> 2.6.17, both custom and stock kernels. I am using the latest version of
> pcmciautils in all cases. In 2.6.17, the insertion and removal is
> detected, but it never detects what module to load and the card is never
> listed in lspci. There is nothing in lspci for the card. The problem
> seems similar to one described at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html#knownproblems.
> I tried what was suggested there along with various other pci= and
> acpi= boot arguments and none of them helped. I also need to boot with
> acpi=noirq for my secondary ide controller to work, but that is true for
> all of the kernels I have tried, pcmcia working or not.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz