I have recently installed redhat 9 on Toshiba Tecra 750DVD
and have a problem with pcmcia -
while starting pcmcia on boot it gives me the following message

Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:02.0. Please try using pci=bi
osirq.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:02.1. Please try using pci=bi
osirq.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready


cat /etc/interrupts shows the following
CPU0
0: 569759 XT-PIC timer
1: 7214 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
12: 18256 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 98072 XT-PIC ide0
15: 2 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0


I am using a Linksys PCMLM56 ethernet card and as per their website have also
included the following lines in /etc/pcmcia/config

card "Linksys EtherFast LANmodem 56k"
version "Linksys", "EtherFast 10&100 + 56k PC Card(PCMLM56)
bind "pcnet_cs", "serial_cs"

i have tried to comment the excludes in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and also
specify the irq in /etc/pcmcia/config againsts pcnet_cs like the following

device "pcnet_cs"
class "network" module "net/8390", "pcnet_cs" opts "irq_mode=10"

and restarted the pcmcia (using /etc/init.d/pcmcia reload) but in vain

pls. advice...
thanks in advance

Sounds like cardmgr is not loaded. Can you give some more info?

I want you to type some things at the console and post the results here, ok? If you're unfamiliar with using the console, let me know whether you're using KDE, Gnome, IceWM or if you're even starting X.

Once you're at the console type lsmod, and post the result. Then, type ps -A and post that also. Next, with the card plugged in type cardctl ident and post it.

thanx

thanks...

here is the output -

output of lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 6116 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 17508 1 (autoclean)
lp 8580 0 (autoclean)
parport 33952 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12148 0 (autoclean) (unused)
pcmcia_core 53152 0
ipt_REJECT 3672 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2316 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14488 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
nls_iso8859-1 3484 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11948 1 (autoclean)
fat 36792 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
keybdev 2720 0 (unused)
mousedev 5204 1
hid 20772 0 (unused)
input 5632 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 20392 0 (unused)
usbcore 73088 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 64704 2
jbd 47828 2 [ext3]



output of ps -A

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 kapmd
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
6 ? 00:00:00 kscand/DMA
7 ? 00:00:00 kscand/Normal
8 ? 00:00:00 kscand/HighMem
10 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
11 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
15 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
73 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1182 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
1419 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
1423 ? 00:00:00 klogd
1442 ? 00:00:00 portmap
1461 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
1540 ? 00:00:00 apmd
1577 ? 00:00:00 sshd
1591 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
1611 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
1620 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
1630 ? 00:00:00 gpm
1639 ? 00:00:00 crond
1650 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
1710 ? 00:00:03 xfs
1719 ? 00:00:00 anacron
1728 ? 00:00:00 atd
1736 ? 00:00:00 login
1737 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
1738 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
1739 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
1740 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
1741 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
1742 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
1785 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
1786 ? 00:00:13 X
1795 tty1 00:00:00 bash
1841 ? 00:00:00 startkde
1899 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
1943 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1946 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1949 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1951 ? 00:00:07 kdeinit
1961 ? 00:00:02 artsd
1976 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
1977 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
1979 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
1980 ? 00:00:04 kdeinit
1982 ? 00:00:12 kdeinit
1984 ? 00:00:06 kdeinit
1985 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1989 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
1990 ? 00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
1991 ? 00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
1992 ? 00:00:01 eggcups
1993 ? 00:00:14 rhn-applet-gui
1995 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
1997 ? 00:00:05 kdeinit
1998 ? 00:00:05 kdeinit
1999 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
2009 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
2055 pts/2 00:00:00 vim
2056 pts/1 00:00:00 ps


output of cardctl ident

no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices


thanks once again...

Ok, one more thing and we may be able to fix this, post the results of an lspci -vv, let's see who makes the chips in that box.

thanks as always ..

here is the output of lspci -vv

00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev 2c)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, cache line size 08

00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=14, sec-latency=0
I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite-
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=15, subordinate=15, sec-latency=0
I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite-
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/MX (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems ViRGE/MX
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=64K]

00:0a.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 13)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at ffc0 [size=32]

00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems USB
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (250ns min, 5250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at f7fff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Toshiba America Info Systems Tecra Video Capture device (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at f7ffef00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

00:0d.0 Multimedia controller: Toshiba America Info Systems DVD Decoder card (Version 2) (rev 02)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 32000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at fe00 [size=256]

I got this from here: http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/#pcmcia, can you check your bios settings as outlined in that doc. Also, can you do a "cat /boot/config | grep -i acpi" and see how your kernel's acpi stuff is set? It's a long shot but we should check it anyway.

the setting in BIOS for card control was set to AUTO, after i changed that to
'PCIC compatible' the error messages for interrupts do not appear
but i still get the message 'ds: no socket drivers loaded'

here is output of dmesg

Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 16:42:56 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008010000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000008010000 - 0000000008020000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000008020000 - 0000000008040000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fef80000 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 00000000fffe6e00 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe6e00 - 00000000fffe7000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
128MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32784
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28688 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233.291 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125164k/131136k available (1221k kernel code, 4560k reserved, 993k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd506, last bus=21
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: IBM-DYLA-28100, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 16007040 sectors (8196 MB) w/459KiB Cache, CHS=996/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 145k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc9044000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.0, NEC Corporation USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready


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output of cardctl -ident
no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

thanks as always

can you post the contents of /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, not sure why it would be messed up, but it won't hurt to check it.