[juneau-lug] Re: Redhat 7.3, PCMCIA and X
- From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:44:43 -0800
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:38:17 -0800
"Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Next, I can only get the PCMCIA card manager working after I login and
> restart it from the Redhat Services Manager. Trying to restart from a
> commandline doesn't work. During bootup, the boot messages show that the
> card manager is unable to get an interrupt. Has anyone had this problem
> and come up with a solution?
Try going into BIOS and reserving irq 3, 5, and/or 9. Those are interrupts
used by various built-in devices (sound, etc.) and sometimes the PCMCIA manager
doesn't correctly autoprobe them on older hardware.
You probably won't need to reserve all three - I'd start with 5.
Cheers,
James
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