On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 12:52 am, Noah Hicks wrote: > I don't know if anyone recalls this problem, but I have an IRQ conflict > with my PCMCIA card, USB, and YENTA (whatever that is). They all appear > to be on IRQ 10. I'm trying to get the PCMCIA card working but I can't > figure out how to change the IRQ of the PCMCIA from BIOS. The BIOS is > from Dell, I'm running a Latitude LS400 and I upgraded the BIOS last > night with bootable floppy from Dell. If anybody knows how to change > IRQ settings in a Dell BIOS I'd really appreciate it. Again thanks for > the help in figuring out what the problem actually was. > > -Noah
Noah I have done a bit of digging and come up with some info that may help. 1/ There is a pcmcia config file at /etc/pcmcia/config.opts If you add a line 'exclude irq10' you *may* be able to get your Pcmcia on a different IRQ line. 2/ The reason I say 'may' is because there are two pcmcia managers 'yenta_socket' which is the default pcmcia handler inside the Linux kernel, and 'i82365' which is external to the kernel. That config file may be only for use with i82365, I am not sure. 3/ You can select between yenta_socket and i82365 by naming one or the other in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia in the line 'PCIC=xxxxx' I am not sure if just putting i82365 in there is all you need do, but it is worth a try :-) 4/ You will find a useful pcmcia mailing list at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7049 and the main pcmcia site is at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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