On 6 Jan 2004, Christian Lyra<lyra@pop-pr.rnp.br> verbalized: > Hi, Yo, >> Here I have an ACER TM803 laptop running perfectly except one thing: >> PCMCIA. I use a Debian SID GNU/Linux with a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. All >> has been done accordingly to advice I receive here and there. It has >> support for PCMCIA devices, Wireless and orinoco support. So I am >> using a wireless driver from the kernel since it worked pretty well >> under 2.4.x for me. Problem is that when inserting the card, first I >> don't ear any 'bip' sound as it used to do. Then the card is no >> longer able to connect to the AP (also by linksys). Have anyone any >> clue I could follow to (at last) have this working ? > > Well... I think something is broken. I have a similar setup > and my orinoco > card doesnt work with 2.6.0 AND acpi. When I insert the card I get the error > "Unknow Method: RequestIRQ" on syslog. My "wired" pcmcia 8139 wotks fine. I > try the mm2 patch and it works but since it broken other things I give it up. Can you elaborate on that ? In what does it break more things than it fixes ? I am planning to migrate to the new 2.6.1 kernel that is AFAIK a 2.6.0 with -mm1 patches (maybe some of -mm2 too) so it would be interesting for me not to update if it breaks other things. zeDek -- No e-patents, pas de brevets logiciels Pétition contre les brevets logiciels : http://petition.eurolinux.org
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