I have an Acer Aspire 3620 laptop and currently running CentOS 4.3 with stock kernel 2.6.9-34.EL. The CB1410 carbus controller is detected and using IRQ 10. My problem with the cardbus is that Linux it did not detect my FireWire or SATA card inserted into the cardbus slot.

Here is the lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (
rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
(rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 0
3)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev
03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio C
ontroller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:09.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

dmesg output:
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PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1e.2[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1e.3[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:07.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1
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Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:06:09.0 [1025:006a]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:06:09.0, mfunc 0x00001022, devctl 0x44
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0070, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000020
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On Windows XP environment, the CB1410 is using IRQ 22 and the my Firewire or SATA card works well. Anyone has any suggestions what I should do to make my Firewire card work with the cardbus?

you can try to pass to the kernel following line: pci=assign-busses.
I think on acers the cardbus controller is behind pci bridge.

I found the Ubuntu distribution was able to detect the PCMCIA card (SATA and Firewire) inserted. You have to get this version of Ubuntu 6.0.6 with kernel version 2.6.15.

I have tried all these distributions and none of them was able to detect my SATA or Firewire card inserted into the slot:
Fedora x
Centos 4.x
RedHat 4.x
Knoppix 4.x
Tao 1.x

Another thing good about the Ubuntu distribution is that it also configure my X to fit my widescreen laptop with the proper resoltuon. In addition, you can also try to run OS off the CD before deciding to install on your hard disk! So do give Ubuntu a try if other distributions doesn't work for you.

One more thing - my built-in wireless card was detected and worked flawlessly. No more ndiswrapper hassle!