"unable to apply power" error

[David L. Martin]

On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 20:55 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 03:29:31PM -0400, David L. Martin wrote:
> > I am apparently having the "unable to apply power" bug.
> > I stopped using wireless pcmcia cards about six months ago (they worked
> > at the time).  This weekend I attempted to start using wireless cards
> > again, they now no longer work.

> > Here is the info on my system:
> > http://www.kc2lcf.net/problem.txt

> At a guess:
> 
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> 	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
> 	I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00003fff
> 	Memory behind bridge: e0200000-e0afffff
> 
> 01:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
> 	Region 0: Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> 
> 01:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
> 	Region 0: Memory at 20001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> 
> and:
> 
> PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
> 
> are in conflict.  It doesn't look at 1e.0 is a "transparent" bridge to
> me, and this probably explains why we're not able to talk to the
> cardbus bridge properly.

What can I do about this, and why did it work before (older kernel and
pcmcia code)?