[Sheflug] PCMCIA woes continue

[Neil R Porter <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

Thanks to the help at the last meet I am much further along the road to
getting my pcmcia modem working.  In fact it does work.  However, I now
get some undesirable behaviour.  If I tail -f /var/log/messages, plug
the card in and then remove it I get the following.
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Sep 24 22:24:40 laptop kernel: ttyS01 at port 0x02f8 (irq = 4) is a
16550A
Sep 24 22:25:02 laptop kernel: tty01 unloaded
Sep 24 22:25:02 laptop kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL
REQUEST.
Sep 24 22:25:02 laptop kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Sep 24 22:25:03 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00
(floppy), sector 0
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When the card is in I can dial up and it works, however I noticed I had
CDROM errors on shutdown and investigated and found the above message
and also discovered that I can pop a cd in and read it OK, but can't
then take it out again.  I haven't tried the floppy drive yet (no
floppies!).

Could this be an interrupt issue?  Should I exclude that irq or port for
use with pcmcia?  I already excluded irq 3 on the advice of a website I
found which is what finally got it to work in the first place (
http://marge.cineca.it/aventuri/public/Linux_on_a_Toshiba_Satellite_S3000-214.html  - different laptop but it worked for me on my Acer Aspire 1400).  Quite why my pcmcia card is interfering with the cdrom and floppy is a mystery to me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Neil

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