forcing irq on PCMCIA card

[progressdll]

forcing irq on PCMCIA card
ENV: linux Version: Mandrake 8.1, PCMCIA card: longshine lcs-8534TB.
(supported according the PCMCIA docs)
laptop is P-II lifetec

/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia:
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365 ( found via probe -m )
PCIC_OPTS="cs_irq=11 pci_irq_list=11,11 do_scan=0" ( you see i want to force irq 11 )
CORE_OPTS=

cat /dev/interrupts BEFORE running /etc/rc.d/init.t/pcmcia start ( in
maintenance mode )
CPU0
0: 85822 XT-PIC timer
1: 141 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 xT-PIC rtc
14: 3461 XT-PIC ide0
NMI:0
ERR:0

cat /dev/interrupts AFTER running /etc/rc.d/init.t/pcmcia start ( in
maintenance mode )
CPU0
0: 48004 XT-PIC timer
1: 426 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 xT-PIC rtc
13: 0 XT-PIC i82364
14: 3461 XT-PIC ide0, i82365
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

What ever i try, irq 13 is always taken. And why is there also a relation with irq 14?
I get a lot of error on the HDA. Eventualy the systems become horrible slow and locks up.

Windows 98 on this system works perfectly. But i want 100% linux on this machine with network support.
any help is welcome.

Joeri

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



Those longshines seem to be bound to "pcnet_cs" so you should be able to set something like this in /etc/pcmcia/config :



device "pcnet_cs"

class "network" module "net/8390", "pcnet_cs" opts "irq_list=11"



See -->

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-5.html

I'm not sure quite how the Mandrake /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file makes things different from the default though ! See the sysv init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia I guess.



Hope this helps

 

[progressdll]

Found a possible soultion at:

http://sdb.suse.cz/en/sdb/html/pcmcia_install_kernel2.4.x.html

It's Suse but should work with mandrake also.