Orinoco IRQ problem?

[Komuro]

Please add 
exclude irq 3
to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.



Best Regards
Komuro

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>
>I've been having trouble getting an Orinoco wireless PCMCIA card to work 
>with recent 2.6 kernels (2.6.24, among others).  To make a long story 
>short (long story posted on the orinoco-users mailing list), the problem 
>seems to be IRQ related.  The card connects to the access point just 
>fine, but ultimately loses an interrupt and never comes up ready.  (To 
>save a visit to orinoco-users, the laptops in question are an IBM T21 
>and a T41.)
>
>I can get the card to work by either
>	rmmod nsc_ircc
>or by enabling the infrared port in the BIOS(!).
>
>The card is assigned IRQ3 (by yenta_socket, I guess).  The default IRQ 
>for the infrared port is also IRQ3.  I have no definitive proof that the 
>two facts are related.  I did get a comment from a former Orinoco 
>maintainer that the Orinoco card/driver did not like to share IRQ's.
>
>My question:  Is it possible to tell yenta_socket (or whatever module is 
>assigning the IRQ) to stay away from IRQ3?  I tried google, and didn't 
>get any answers that were reasonable - most referred to the old PCMCIA 
>drivers.
>
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