sphinx pico card; serial_cs ... irq 10 failed

[Jan Tönjes]

Am Samstag 12 August 2006 12:37 schrieb Russell King:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:12:00AM +0200, Jan T?njes wrote:
> > Am Samstag 12 August 2006 10:23 schrieb Russell King:
> > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:24:03AM +0200, Jan T?njes wrote:
> > > > i am using gentoo linux kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4, i have pcmciautils
> > > > v. 0.14 installed and everything is ok, but when i insert my card it
> > > > tells me:
> > > >
> > > > Aug 12 02:15:26 alitoh pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
> > > > Aug 12 02:15:26 alitoh pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
> > > > Aug 12 02:15:27 alitoh serial_cs: serial8250_register_port() at
> > > > 0x03e8, irq 10 failed
> > >
> > > Please do: cat /proc/tty/driver/serial and send the output.
> >
> > Good Morning! :-)
> >
> > alitoh pcmcia # cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
> > serinfo:1.0 driver revision:
> > 0: uart:8250 port:00008828 irq:5 tx:0 rx:0
> > 1: uart:8250 port:00008840 irq:5 tx:0 rx:0
> > 2: uart:8250 port:00008850 irq:5 tx:0 rx:0
> > 3: uart:8250 port:00008860 irq:5 tx:0 rx:0
> > alitoh pcmcia #
> >
> > ;-) There seems to be the Problem. What can I do "against" it?
>
> You appear to have no free uart slots.  Try booting with 8250.nr_uarts=8
> if 8250 is built-in, or loading the 8250 module with nr_uarts=8.

Thanks a lot! It didn't work first, but then I recompiled my kernel with

(8) Maximum number of 8250/16550 serial ports

(was 4 before)

and passed the bootoption to the kernel. Thanks for your help and have a nice 
weekend :-)

Greetings, Jan