Re: need help with compile of pcmcia card driver (new info, new problem)

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:57:14PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:31, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >  On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:45:41AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 23:47, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ds: no socket drivers loaded! (excl.pt. is part of the displayed message)
> > > > I learned from pcmcia that there are two possible socket drivers: tcic and i82365.
> > > > I tried insmod on both. Neither would install.
> > > 
> > > Use modprobe instead of insmod.  modprobe will (assuming all else is
> > > good) pick up depencencies, and insmod will not.  This alone will
> > > prevent a correct driver from loading, so you can't tell just with
> > > insmod.
> > 
> > Actually I did use modprobe, but modprobe uses insmod and the error message that
> > came up was from insmod. In my confusion, I mis-spoke.
> 
I've done a lot of work since my last post on my problem, and failed in a lot of
different ways. In summary, I can get the light on my pcmcia ethernet card to light
if I use kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4, but not if I use kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc.
I've looked at error messages when kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 log and found clues, which
lead me to try restarting pcmcia in init.d. (Along the way to this point, I rebuilt the
kernel and the pcmcia modules using make-kpkg.) For this I got an error message that may
contain the answer to my problem, but I don't understand the message. It is:

# /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
...
Starting PCMCIA services: modulesLinux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
  kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4.0 unknown
  options:  [pci] [cardbus]  [apm]
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:13.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:13.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
  TI 1130 rev 04 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:13, mem 0x10000000 
    host opts [0]: [ring] [isa irq] [no pci irq] [lat 64/176] [bus 1/4]
    host opts [1]: [ring] [isa irq] [no pci irq] [lat 64/176] [bus 5/8]
    ISA irqs (scanned) = 5,9,10,11 status change on irq 11
  cardmgr.
#

So, I suppose I should 'try using pci=biosirq', but I don't know what this means.
What keystrokes should I type? What program should I invoke? What context should I
set up, prior to trying to use this magic word?

Please give some guidance.
TIA

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Paul E Condon           
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