Re: problem configuring pcmcia card

[Renaud de Villemeur <renaud.devillemeur@free.fr>]

En réponse à Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>: 
 
> Renaud de Villemeur, 2003-Apr-17 20:19 +0200: 
> > Hello,   
> > ALTSTATUS(0xff)  
> > Apr 17 20:02:15 (none) kernel: hdc: ARCHOS MiniCDRW XS8432, ATAPI  
> > CD/DVD-ROM drive  
> > Apr 17 20:02:15 (none) kernel: hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xb9f8)  
> > Apr 17 20:02:15 (none) kernel: ide1: DISABLED, NO IRQ  
> > Apr 17 20:02:17 (none) kernel: hdc: ERROR, PORTS ALREADY IN USE  
> > Apr 17 20:02:19 (none) kernel: ide1: ports already in use, skipping 
> probe  
> > Apr 17 20:02:26 (none) last message repeated 3 times  
> > Apr 17 20:02:28 (none) kernel: ide1: ports already in use, skipping 
> probe  
> > Apr 17 20:02:34 (none) last message repeated 3 times  
> > Apr 17 20:02:34 (none) kernel: ide_cs: ide_register() at 0x100 & 
> 0x10e, irq 0 failed  
> > Apr 17 20:02:34 (none) kernel: Trying to free nonexistent resource  
> > <00000100-0000010f>  
>  
> This section of your cdrom.  The system is finding the hardware, but 
> it can't find an available interupt to bind it to.  Check 
> /proc/devices to see what devices are available for use and 
> /proc/interupts to see what's being used by which interupt. 
>  
 
Here is my /proc/devices file 
Character devices: 
  1 mem 
  2 pty 
  3 ttyp 
  4 ttyS 
  5 cua 
  7 vcs 
 10 misc 
 13 input 
 14 sound 
 29 fb 
128 ptm 
129 ptm 
136 pts 
137 pts 
162 raw 
180 usb 
188 ttyUSB 
 
and the interrupt one. 
Block devices: 
  2 fduser@(none):/proc$ cat interrupts 
           CPU0 
  0:    1032379          XT-PIC  timer 
  1:       7186          XT-PIC  keyboard 
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade 
  9:      30417          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, eth0 
 10:      26883          XT-PIC  Allegro 
 12:      92067          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse 
 14:      15047          XT-PIC  ide0 
NMI:          0 
ERR:          0 
 
> The modules will load, but there are no binding behind them to allow 
> you to use them. 
>    
> > For information, my cdrom is an archos external cdrom, and the 
> ethernet/modem card  
> > is a 3com 3CCFEM556B 10/100 LAN + 56K Modem.  
> > I was able to use the modem card under slackware, but I can't figure 
> out how to use it  
> > under debian (my laptop has a winmodem...too bad).  
>  
> jc 
 
Can you tell me which command i should do next. I think I should pass some 
parameters to the kernel, but I can't figure which one. 
 
Renaud