Linksys Wireless card breaks my ALSA maestro3

shimmyt · 10-05-2003, 03:16 PM

I have a HP N3250 laptop that I just intalled Slackware 9.1 onto. Well ALSA loads the Maestro3 card just fine as long as I don't plug in my Wireless card. When I plug my Wireless card in and reboot I get this message about 50 times while booting:

ALSA maestro3.c:1842: ac97 serial bus busy

Just wondering if anyone else gets this. I works fine when I leave the wireless card unplugged. Also the wireless card works just fine.

akaBeaVis · 10-05-2003, 11:16 PM

and Neil Young said "Rust never sleeps" and neither do I, heh.

anyway, you seem to have yourself a bonafide resource conflict, how will you resolve it?

shimmyt · 10-09-2003, 09:36 PM

Well I dunno yet, turns out it's not because of the wireless card though. Here's the text from my syslog file:

kernel: ALSA maestro3.c:1842: ac97 serial bus busy
last message repated 127 times
kernel: ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/ac97_codec.c:1625: AC'99 0:0 does not respond - RESET
kernel: Maestro3/Allegro soundcard not found or device busy
kernel: ALSA maestro3.c:1842: ac97 serial bus busy
last message repated 217 times
kernel: ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/ac97_codec.c:1625: AC'99 0:0 does not respond - RESET
kernel: Maestro3/Allegro soundcard not found or device busy

This is a fresh install of the new Slackware 9.1...

shimmyt · 10-09-2003, 09:46 PM

Well going off of that resource conflict tip. I did some more searching in dmesg and I found this:

IRQ routing conflict for 00:0d.1, have irq 11, want irq 5
IRQ routing conflict for 01:00.0, have irq 11, want irq 5

OK now i'm pretty much out of my league dealing with irq issues. So any help would be appreciated.

bjarvis829 · 10-10-2003, 06:37 PM

You should see if you can easily change your built-in audios resources in BIOS to another setting. Or your could try building a new kernel with plug and play enabled and see if it can work it out for you.

Brady

akaBeaVis · 10-11-2003, 11:19 AM

If this is a conflict that only exists when both the maestro and the wireless card are in use, and you're unable to change anything in the bios as already suggested, and *if* this is a 16bit pcmcia card, (not a 32bit CardBus card), then you may be able to change things in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, there are a number of directives available in that file to get around resource conflicts, I'm thinking you want to add a line like this: "exclude irq 5" if it's not already there, then restart pcmcia with /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop/start.