On Mon, 10 August 1998, Arrigo Benedetti wrote:
> Do you have the following in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ?
>
> PCMCIA=yes
> PCIC=i82365
> PCIC_OPTS=
> CORE_OPTS=
> CARDMGR_OPTS=
You might need to list the irqs with "irq_list=..." (11 and 5 worked
for me). So, try something like:
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=11,5"
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=
This is from the /usr/doc/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO
3.2. Interrupt scan failures
Symptoms:
� The system locks up when the PCMCIA drivers are loaded, even with
no cards present.
� The system log shows a successful PCMCIA controller probe just
before the lock-up, but does not show interrupt probe results.
After identifying the PCMCIA controller, the socket driver probes for
free interrupts. The probe involves programming the controller for
each apparently free interrupt, then generating a ``soft'' interrupt,
to see if the interrupt can be detected correctly. In some cases,
probing a particular interrupt can interfere with another system
device.
The reason for the probe is to identify interrupts which appear to be
free (i.e., are not reserved by any other Linux device driver), yet
are either not physically wired to the PCMCIA controller, or are
connected to another device that does not have a driver.
There are two ways to proceed:
� The interrupt probe can be restricted to a list of interrupts using
the irq_list parameter for the socket drivers. For example,
``irq_list=5,9,10'' would limit the scan to three interrupts. All
PCMCIA devices will be restricted to using these interrupts
(assuming they pass the probe). You may need to use trial and
error to find out which interrupts can be safely probed.
� The interrupt probe can be disabled entirely by loading the socket
driver with the ``do_scan=0'' option. In this case, a default
interrupt list will be used, which avoids interrupts already
allocated for other devices.
In either case, the probe options can be specified using the PCIC_OPTS
definition in the PCMCIA startup script, for example:
PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=5,9,10"
Tudor
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