I've searched for yenta threads with little luck, so I decided to post. I guess this is how you learn.....

I recently installed Red Hat 9 just after giving up on Mandrake 9.1 to find out both of them have the same problem (with my notebook).

This has been an ongoing battle for me, which started out with a pcmcia cardbus nic (linksys). I had long since given up and have since bought a linksys wireless card (WPC11, v. 2.0.x) when I set up a home wireless network. The card worked with RedHat 8, but will not work with 9.

After a little more learning, and some trial & error, I have narrowed the problem to the yenta kernel module (yenta_socket). It isn't loading....it fails miserably.

When I try to 'insmod yenta_socket' it gives me an error indicating that no devices are found. dmesg reports no irq found on device 0:0:a (something like that), and says to try 'pci=biosirq'.

The notebook is using a texas instruments cardbus socket, and for whatever reason it isn't starting. None of my pcmcia cards get power. They all work fine in windows (multiboot).

So I've narrowed the problem, but what do I do now? As far as the wireless nic driver is concerned, there are no pcmcia devices attached.

Any ideas?

The notebook is a Compaq Presario 1210us.

Thanks ..... I'm learning, slowly, but steadily!

Some ideas...

What's in "dmesg" from the yenta_socket load fail?

Also, what's the exact pcmcia bridge type off of:

/sbin/lspci

If its just an IRQ issue, which is really a compaq problem instead of a yenta issue, you might want to look at:

/etc/pcmcia/config.opts

This way you can exclude irq ports from its search order... although that might just be outdated since the switch to yenta.

Also, you can send arguments directly at modprobe in the init file, they're about 30 lines down, but I can't remember offhand the syntax they require, but you can definately still find that info at pcmcia-cs's sourceforge page.

That's about all I can think of for now,

Cheers,

Finegan

The thing that is really driving me nuts is that my pcmcia worked in an earlier version of linux....I assume it was using yenta....but I'm not sure. Would have been Mandrake 8.1.

Here's the output of several of the commands:

#lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Conexant HCF 56k Modem (rev 08)
00:09.1 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Modem (rev 05)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

#insmod yenta_socket
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg

#dmesg
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0a.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.

#cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 65400 XT-PIC timer
1: 1286 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 5182 XT-PIC via82cxxx
12: 6140 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 8752 XT-PIC ide0
15: 109 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

Windows 2000 is reporting that the cardbus controller is running on IRQ 9, and that the wireless card is using IRQ 3. Any suggestions?

Try the dmesg suggestion, RH 9.0? From Grub:

ctrl+X
Linux pci=biosirq

See what happens... Oh, btw, you were using yenta with RH 8.0 before. Also probably with Mandy 8.1, oddly enough I never used that release and by 8.2 they had switched to yenta.

Cheers,

Finegan

Okay,

I have the following in my grub.conf file:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ pci=biosirq
initrd /boot/initrd-1.4.20-8.img

I restarted the computer, and it freezes solid when it tries to load pcmcia services....

Do I have my grub.conf configured correctly?

What now? Am I out of luck? I'm lost!