Linux -Sony Laptap Vaio (PCG-GRZ630) with FireWire(1394) and wireless 802.11g
 

Hi To all:

I am John Tobias, new in this mailing list and I am using vaio laptop and asking for help regarding with that laptap.
I am just wondering if there's anyone successfully integrated the firewire(1394) in RH9.0 2.4.x kernel?
Can you give me some information please.

Also, I am using wireless card in my PCMCIA (Belkin 802.11g or the BroadCom). The RH9.0 detected the card because when I execute the "xcardinfo" detects the information of the cardbus.
also, when I ejected or inserted the card the system beep notifying the card is detected. So, I would like to know what other software/issue should I do in order my wireless internet work and my firewire port.


Thank you,

John Tobias

Firewire works well in the kernel, has for ages... Sony Looooooves to put proprietary and goopy chipsets in the Viao, that don't work with the kernel. What's the output of /sbin/lspci?

The Broadcom pcmcia card is a loss, Broadcom refused to release any chipset info, so... no one can code a driver. As far as I know... all Belkin 802.11g products are just more Broadcom kit, but you have two cards... er, what's the output of:

/sbin/cardctl ident

Cheers,

Finegan

Athough, the firewire detected in my system but loading the module for the firewire is the problem stating the message below.

ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0

Here's what I got in "lspci"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320 (rev 02)

and "cardctl ident"

Socket 0:
product info: "Broadcom", "802.11g CardBus", "4.5"
manfid: 0x02d0, 0x0417
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available

then in my "Syslog"

PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:1f.6. Please try using pci=biosirq.
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 9
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.1
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 9
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 00:1d.2. Please try using pci=biosirq.
usb-uhci.c: found UHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings!
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 02:05.2. Please try using pci=biosirq.

I got 3 addresses with no IRQ, I tried to append pci=biosirq in the kernel but still doesn't work.

Thanks,

Jtobias

The IRQ issues are acpi, the Viao seems to be an acpi only machine... Viaos and Toshibas just seem to have gotten fully supported acpi around 2.4.22, it might take a recompile, and definately fire up acpid.

The g card, what can I say... its Broadcom, same annoying card that a bunch of people are stuck with. Maybe there will be support for it one day, but from how Broadcom is behaving, I largely doubt it.

Cheers,

Finegan