pd6729, no irq known

[Jim Nelson]

John Heim wrote:
> 
> 
> 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)
> 
> 
> 

Just out of curiosity, have you tried pci=biosirq as a kernel command-line option? 
  I've got an old Thinkpad that had the same problem, but it came up that IBM 
never hooked up the PCMCIA bridge properly.  Your laptop is as old as mine, so it 
might be a similar problem...

BTW - do you have the docking station?  If it can take a PCI card, that might be 
the best option for right now.

Jim