Ok. I am running an eslate 450k laptop. With a clean install of rh7.2. I updated the pcmcia-cs to the newest stable release. 3.2.1 i think.

Now. It finds the sockets ok. They come up as 02 micro 6832/6833. This loads ok. cat /proc/interrupts shows its on int 11.

I have serial and parallel ports turned off. I have gpm turned off because I thought the card might need int 12.

Its a xircom xe2000 card.(I also have a xircom wireless card but one thing at a time) I made sure that the correct module was in /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/pcmcia. its xirc2ps_cs.o and yes its there.

Pcmcia is started fine with no errors in /var/log/messages.

Here is the prob. When I put the card in i get nothing. No beep, no error, no nothing. I have tried both xircom cards, and an intel card i had lying around. I also on a whim threw on mandrake 8.2 just to see if rh was being squirrly but same thing there.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much.
j1tters

RH 7.2 shipped using the in-kernel pcmcia, so when you upgraded pcmcia-cs, you basically just upgraded the .conf files and cardmgr, its probably, and I really mean probably, I'm not certain, still loading yenta_socket from the 2.4.7 kernel to handle everything. You can either recompile the kernel with everything pcmcia left OUT and then recompile pcmcia-cs, or grab a newer kernel, I had 7.2 running with 2.4.18 fine for months, and then compile in all of those pcmcia modules...

First off, check "lsmod", if yenta_socket is there, its probably running the show... if pcmcia_core is there also... I have no idea.

Did you get the good beeps before you upgraded pcmcia? If not, it might be an issue with your cardbus being unsupported, which is not unheard of, but highly unlikely.

Also, if you haven't got sound working yet, some laptops do away with an internal speaker and rely on the card and its speakers for system sounds, anything to save an inch.

According to my /etc/pcmcia/config, both of your cards are supported in pcmcia-cs 3.1.33 dated:

config 1.199 2002/02/26 04:56:57 (David Hinds)

Offhand, if this machine is newer than P1, I wouldn't worry about IRQs, From the Apollo series on, the mobos could stack devices on single interupts.

I'm trying to think of everything and that last one that I thought of was maybe that you don't have an rc script for pcmcia, which just means manually modprobing pcmcia_core or yenta_socket.

Cheers,

Finegan

thanks fenegin.

Here is the output from lsmod.

yenta_socket 8976 2
pcmcia_core 39392 0 [ds yenta_socket]

So not sure what that means. Are they both supposed to be loaded?

Thanks again
j1tters

I have no idea offhand, I never used RedHat's stock 2.4.7, so I can't remember what was compiled into the kernel or what was left as a module, and this is just kinda weird.

Your best bet is to grab a newer kernel, compile all of the pcmcia support for pcmcia from the core to the card modules either into it and see if that works, or out of it, and then recompile pcmcia-cs for it.

Or, since this is a fresh install, just re-install RH 7.2 as the version of pcmcia it had supported both cards.

Cheers,

Finegan