yenta_socket: PCMCIA-Cards are not recognised by kernel

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Sat Sep 5 09:59:11 EDT 2009


> For this laptop at all there are a lot of problems with newer linux kernels. 
> Some people got it working with serveral hacks in the config file of the 
> pcmcia_cs suite, but all those tips only fit with pcmcia_cs and so to the 
> 2.4 kernel. If you're interessted in those sources, i could search the URLs
> again in my browser history.

Yes, maybe those explain the problem; that would definately help ;)

> Maybe it also relevant what I read on a german bsd-board. In FreeBSD 4.10 it 
> worked perfectly on this laptop, but since 4.11 the slots won't get an 
> interrupt assigned. I don't now very much about hardware and driver 
> development, but I'am sure that it has to do something with the assigned 
> ressources (and maybe with the interrupt).

Well, the PCI config space (which lspci needs) should be visible without an
assigned IRQ.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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