PCMCIA IRQ Problems

relayer416 · 09-09-2004, 02:12 PM

This could take awhile, so please have patience...

I am attempting to install Red Hat 8 on a generic laptop; Pentium w/MMX, 233MHz, 96 MB RAM, with the following chipset (from lspci):

00:00.0 Host Bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C557 [Viper-M] (rev 14)
00:01.0 ISA Bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C558 [Viper-M ISA+IDE] (rev 2)
00:06.0 VGA Compatible controller: Trident TGUI 9660/938x/968x (rev d3)
00:0e.0 CardBus bridge: Cirrus Logic PD 6832 PCMCIA/CardBus Ctrlr (rev c1)
00:0e.1 CardBus bridge: Cirrus Logic PD 6832 PCMCIA/CardBus Ctrlr (rev c1)
00:10.0 USB Controller CMD Technology Inc. USB0670 (rev 04)
00:14.0 IDE interface: OPTi Inc. 82C621 [Viper-M/N+] (rev 12)

I currently have a Xircom CE3-10/100 NIC. The kernel version that initally was used was 2.4.18-14. After installation, during the boot, there were the following messages (from dmesg):

OPTI621: IDE Controller on PCI bus 00 dev a0
OPTI621: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
OPTI621: chipset revision 18
OPTI621: not 100% native mode: will probe IRQs later
...
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0e.0. Please try using pci=biosirq
PCI: Enabling device 00:0e.1 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:0e1. Please try using pci=biosirq
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000411
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000007

After doing some searches, I found a posting titled " [2.4] PCI chipset Opti Viper M/N+", and the smptoms the writer described matched mine almost exactly, so I attempted the fixes he laid out, which involved loading the 2.4.22 kernel, and patching /arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c for the Opti Viper chipset. It compiled properly, but I got a kernel panic when I booted up:

Enabling swap space [ok]
divide error: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<c0105314>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00000246
eax: 00000000 ebx:c01052f0 ecx:00000000 edx:00000019
esi: c0338000 edi: c0338000 ebp: ffffe000 esp: c0339fe0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid:0, stackpage=c0339000)
Stack: c0105382 00000000 00098700 c0105000 0008e000 c033a6b3 c0335400 c0100191
Call Trace: [<c0105382>] [<c0105000>]
Code: c3 fb c3 90 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 fb ba 00 e0 ff ff 83 c8
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - not syncing

A friend suggested that I might not have enough RAM to boot that kernel version, so I repeated the process with 2.4.20. Everything compiled okay, and when I booted, the line:

OPTI621: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!

was gone, however all after:

Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22

was still there. PCMCIA started "ok" but then I got the "high/low" beep and the message:

xirc2ps_cs: RequestIRQ: resource in use

The card is there when I run cardctl ident, and is in /var/lib/pcmcia/stab.
Can any one point me in the right direction? Any help you could give would be, well, helpful.

Tinkster · 09-09-2004, 02:22 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Hardware-Forum, and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

guysoft · 04-09-2007, 07:40 AM

Did anyone have progress in this old old post?
because I am getting the same problem on my thinkpad R52:

Code:

pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
cs: memory probe 0xc8000000-0xcfffffff: excluding 0xc8000000-0xcfffffff
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 3
 [<c01401f5>] setup_irq+0x170/0x184
 [<e0c05c48>] prism2_interrupt+0x0/0x6e0 [hostap_cs]
 [<c0140285>] request_irq+0x7c/0x98
 [<e07029b3>] pcmcia_request_irq+0xe2/0x1d6 [pcmcia]
 [<e0c04925>] hostap_cs_probe+0xaa0/0xe65 [hostap_cs]
 [<c0116412>] __activate_task+0x1c/0x29
 [<c0116412>] __activate_task+0x1c/0x29
 [<c011776e>] try_to_wake_up+0x355/0x35f
 [<c011624d>] __wake_up_common+0x2f/0x53
 [<c023b654>] netlink_broadcast+0x244/0x285
 [<e07021a6>] pcmcia_device_probe+0x66/0xf8 [pcmcia]
 [<c0210b58>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x5d
 [<c0210ab9>] driver_probe_device+0x42/0x8b
 [<c0210b90>] __driver_attach+0x38/0x5d
 [<c02105da>] bus_for_each_dev+0x33/0x55
 [<c0210a23>] driver_attach+0x11/0x13
 [<c0210b58>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x5d
 [<c02102f3>] bus_add_driver+0x64/0xfd
 [<e0701df6>] pcmcia_register_driver+0x4a/0xab [pcmcia]
 [<c01358c1>] sys_init_module+0x16c3/0x1846
 [<c0102c7b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
hostap_cs: index 0x01: , irq 4, io 0x4100-0x413f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 108 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v0.8.3
wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WEP
wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0

i manged to switch irq ports with this line in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts:

Code:

exclude irq 5
exclude irq 7
exclude irq 3
exclude irq 4
exclude irq 10

However I still get problems and the card functions partly, it seems like some other posses is changing it all the time.

guysoft · 04-11-2007, 05:54 AM

nevermind!
solved it by removing my other nics module:

Code:

rmmod ipw2200