pd6729, no irq known

[John Heim]

I have an old Gateway 2100 laptop. It's old but I'm blind and I run it only 
in character mode anyway. The GUI doesn't work with my screen reader. I am 
trying to install debian sarge. I have installed the debian base system but 
I have no network.  This machine has a Cirrus Logic pd6729 pcmcia bridge. I 
believe that I have to load  the module pd6729 but when I do that I get the 
error message below.

# modprobe -v pd6729
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pd6729.ko
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:13.0. Please try 
using p
ci=biosirq.
pd6729: Cirrus PD6729 PCI to PCMCIA Bridge at 0xfcfc on irq 0
pd6729: configured as a 2 socket device.
pd6729: Failed to register irq 0, aborting
pd6729: probe of 0000:00:13.0 failed with error -16
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:01:0a.0. Please try 
using p
ci=biosirq.
pd6729: Cirrus PD6729 PCI to PCMCIA Bridge at 0x1000 on irq 0
pd6729: configured as a 2 socket device.
pd6729: Failed to register irq 0, aborting
pd6729: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -16

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82437MX Mob. System Ctrlr 
(MTSC) &
  82438MX Data Path (MTDP) (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82371MX Mobile PCI I/O IDE 
Xcelerator (
MPIIX) (rev 03)
0000:00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82380PB PCI to PCI Docking Bridge
0000:00:13.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee)
0000:00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 7548
0000:01:0a.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee)