yenta_socket: PCMCIA-Cards are not recognised by kernel

[Christian Krämer]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 16:30:22 Wolfram Sang wrote:
> (As a first note: The dmesg output suffers from linebreaks. Please make
> sure your MUA doesn't split up the logs.)
>
> > Even I installed gentoo with the 2.6.30.5 downloaded from kernel.org.
>
> Good. The sysfs-errors went away, too.
>
> > [    0.000000] IBM Thinkpad 600 Series 2645 detected: force use of
> > acpi=noirq
>
> Uh oh. Which BIOS version do you have?

The configuration interface displays: IBET41WW, 05/12/99.
I know this isn't the newest version, but I don't have a floppy device for the
laptop. I'll try to brun a dos cd with el torito folppy emulation, maybe i can
upgrade it this way.

> > [    1.179419] ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver: 1 docks/bays found
>
> Well, looks like you are using a docking station. Does it work without the
> docking station? What is its name? There seem to be more problems with
> those, for example:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10805

Strange, I'dont use a docking station. I have not even got one.

> > [    1.183173] * Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds
> > for a bug, [    1.183191] * this clock source is slow. Consider trying
> > other clock sources
>
> Wow, there seem to be quite some issues with this laptop...

unfortunately...

> To make sure: Do regular PC Cards (non-CardBus) work with/without the
> docking station? (I would assume that...)

With regular PC Cards you mean 16 bit cards, don't you? I have only those one
wlan card, but i can try to organisate one.