FATAL: Module orinoco_cs is in use.
 

Hey all,

It's been a while since I've used these forums, but I figured now is as good a time as any.

Here's the deal, I've got a Toshiba Portege 7220CTe and a LinkSYS WPC11 type PCMCIA Wireless adapter. I'm using Gentoo 2005.0, with Gentoo's version of kernel 2.6.13-r5. This error isn't crucial or anything, it just annoys the heck out of me every time I turn the system off or reboot, so here goes.

Basically, whenever I shutdown and/or reboot, everything goes normally except for the disabling of my network card.

The following is from my syslog:

cardmgr[6999]: executing modprobe -r orinoco_cs 2>&1'
cardmgr[6999]: + FATAL: Module orinoco_cs is in use.
cardmgr[6999]: modprobe exited with status 1
cardmgr[6999]: exiting

I'm unsure if this has comes with the possibility of eventually damaging the hardware, or if it is just a sheer annoyance, but I'd like to get rid of it either way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

Anyone seen this before? I'm still stumped.

I'm guessing that the modprobe -r statement is somewhere in one of the shutdown routines and the card is still powered up when it is run. To be honest, I'm not sure I understand the value of removing modules on shutdown so I suppose you could use grep to find what script is running the modprobe -r command and either comment out the command or add a command before it to shut down the card. Since it is a PCMCIA card, you should be able to shut down with cardctl eject.