Vincent, I've been pulling what hair I have left out lately over a problem that may or may not be related. What I've found when insert a cardbus style pcmcia card (32 bit ones) or any USB device is that hotplug attempts to start everything on the PCI bus. Which on this comp is everything. VGA sound the works. Older non Cardbus PCMCIA cards that have a static IRQ demand work fine. PCI assigns everthing to IRQ 11 (this is a designed by Manf IRQ and I can't change it.) When you do insert the pcmcia card do tail -f /var/log/messages and I'm willing to bet you see a similar event happening. Hotplug also insists on loading uhci even though usb-uhci is it's replacement and the fact that uhci is in the blacklist in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. BTW I'm trying to get wireless working. I can't even get 2 of the most supported cards around to work. D-Link DWL-650 and an Orinoco Gold I used from a friend of mine.
James On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:05, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > Hello, > > There are still problems with PCMCIA support, which have been there for some > time. I haven't bothered to test to see if they'd been fixed since pre 9.0 > days.. and today discovered that they are indeed still a problem. > > Plugging and unplugging pcmcia cards can cause the interupt handler in the > kernel to crash. Message that EIP is at (2.4.21pre3-2mdk) > then a register dump then > <0> kernel panic > Aiee, killing interupt handler! > In interupt handler, not syncinf. > > The caps lock and scroll lock lights blinking. > > Also, more annoying than anything else, is when the modem is plugged in at > boot time (can't plug it in later - the interupt handler will crash about 25% > of the time), and you try to use it it's busy. Have to modprobe -r serial_cs > then modprobe serial_cs to get it to work. > > Additional info or files or whatever needed to help debug, let me know and > i'll send it. > > V. >
