RE: [Sheflug] PCMCIA woes continue

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

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 23:05, James Mears wrote:
> I am happy to hear that you got PCMCIA working (sort of)
> Is the CD-ROM and Floppy one of those "ultrabay" removable things, it
> may share/overlap an IRQ with the PCMCIA card slot??
> 

Nope, they're both fixed (it's not exactly a _small_ laptop).  But yes,
I will just keep plugging away at excluding irq/ports in
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts until something happens I guess.

btw, thank you for the SMC Barricade recommendation.  Woah, what a nice
piece of kit for the price!  Just need to read the doc you gave me to
work out how to port forward etc.  But for now I don't have the constant
hum upstairs anymore just to be online, and it did only take a few mins
to setup - once I got myself on the same sub!!! hehe, that's what took
the time, working out maybe I should get on 192.168.1 and off 192.168.0
:)

Thanks

Neil

> 
>  
> > 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. <><><> 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 <><><>
> > 
> > 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_Sate
> llite_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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