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Re: wireless/hotplug puzzle, 2.6.0



On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:50:31PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> Except for my PCMCIA wireless card. This is an Orinoco Gold and under
> 2.4.23 it runs just fine, using the hermes, orinoco, and orinoco_cs
> kernel modules. It is correctly identified and woken up by cardmgr.
> 
> Under 2.6.0, the problem is that the card is not recognized at all.
> Inserting and ejecting it produces no beeps and makes no lights flash.
[...] 
> I spent a long time trying to persuade the pcmcia subsytem to notice
> the existence of the card before realizing that this was not in fact a
> cardmgr problem at all. In 2.6.0, these cards are handled by hotplug
> and not by cardmgr. So now I'm trying to understand how hotplug should
> be set up to handle events involving these cards.
> 
> I have hotplug support enabled in the kernel configuration:
[...]
> CONFIG_YENTA=m
[...]
> All a bit much for a mortal user. Does anyone know of any usable
> documentation out there? Any pointers?

I had similar issues getting PCMCIA going on kernels after 2.6.0-test7.
What I did to get it to work was to remove yenta_socket from
/etc/modules.  After that, it worked perfectly.  I'm running sid and
2.6.0.

-- 
Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com

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