Well, this aint fixed in .21.1 after all. I was just lucky with the IRQ line being 5:
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:52:32PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 5, hw_addr 00:04:E2:B7:6E:5D > pccard: card ejected from slot 1 > pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 > pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 > eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 5, hw_addr 00:04:E2:B7:6E:5D > pccard: card ejected from slot 1 > pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 > pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 > eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 5, hw_addr 00:04:E2:B7:6E:5D When the card is in place during boot, I always get irq 3 which is also used by the serial port: CPU0 0: 74146 XT-PIC timer 1: 759 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 27439 XT-PIC pcnet_cs, serial 6: 5 XT-PIC floppy 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 601 XT-PIC acpi, uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta, yenta, ESS Maestro 12: 106 XT-PIC i8042 14: 5191 XT-PIC ide0 15: 566 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 I got the this same problem with 2.6.8-3 from sarge, .18-4 from etch and .20.11 and .21.1 from upstream. In single user mode the serial driver is not used by irattach, so the interrupt line is free: CPU0 0: 19051 XT-PIC timer 1: 151 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 419 XT-PIC pcnet_cs 6: 3 XT-PIC floppy 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 601 XT-PIC acpi, uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta, yenta, ESS Maestro 12: 106 XT-PIC i8042 14: 1737 XT-PIC ide0 15: 63 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Perhaps my problems are just hardware/ACPI trouble... -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]