Re: PCMCIA init failure on 2.3.99

From: Guy Hutchison (ghutchis@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 16:23:58 EST


David Hinds wrote:

> Oh; cardmgr does expect to find a module directory. If you just
> create an empty one, that will get you past that check.

Hmm. Okay, good to know. I guess that's why my old kernel doesn't have
problems, even though it doesn't have module support -- it was compiled w/ module
support at one time, so still has the directory structure.

> I don't think that will be so useful. A better thing to try is to
> disable PCMCIA in the kernel and recompile the PCMCIA package that
> way, which will build a set of modules from the PCMCIA source tree
> instead of the kernel tree. That will let you compare the in-kernel
> PCMCIA with the out-of-kernel PCMCIA.

I wouldn't go so far as to call it useful, but it did more stuff afterwards.
With the kernel built as module-capable and the PCMCIA NE2000 driver built as a
module, cardctl ident manages to identify both of my cards. Perhaps it was just
getting hung up on the lack of a module directory.

However, inserting either card provides the helpful prompt "RequestIRQ: Resource
in use". I know I've seen this message before, but don't remember what I did
about it. :(

  - Guy

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