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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a fresh SuSE 8.0 install (minimal with
pcmcia, wireless tools, and a few other odds and ends). It uses the stock
kernel and i have the kernel sources installed. 'lspci' shows the cardbus
bridge (Ricoh RL5c475). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is dmesg, after a boot...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linux version 2.4.18-4GB (<A
href="mailto:root@Pentium.suse.de">root@Pentium.suse.de</A>) (gcc version 2.95.3
20010315 (SuSE)) #1 Wed May 29 15:47:24 UTC 2002<BR>BIOS-provided physical RAM
map:<BR> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00
(usable)<BR> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000
(reserved)<BR> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
(reserved)<BR> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000
(usable)<BR> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000
(reserved)<BR> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000
(reserved)<BR> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000
(reserved)<BR>Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature<BR>128MB LOWMEM
available.<BR>On node 0 totalpages: 32768<BR>zone(0): 4096 pages.<BR>zone(1):
28672 pages.<BR>zone(2): 0 pages.<BR>Building zonelist for node : 0<BR>Kernel
command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 apm=off acpi=off<BR>Initializing
CPU#0<BR>Detected 166.195 MHz processor.<BR>Console: colour VGA+
80x25<BR>Calibrating delay loop... 331.77 BogoMIPS<BR>Memory: 126284k/131072k
available (1405k kernel code, 4400k reserved, 421k data, 120k init, 0k
highmem)<BR>Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072
bytes)<BR>Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536
bytes)<BR>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096
bytes)<BR>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768
bytes)<BR>Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)<BR>CPU:
Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0<BR>Intel
Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.<BR>CPU: After vendor init, caps:
000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000<BR>CPU: After
generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000
00000000<BR>CPU:
Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000<BR>CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200
stepping 0c<BR>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.<BR>POSIX conformance testing by
UNIFIX<BR>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (<A
href="mailto:rgooch@atnf.csiro.au">rgooch@atnf.csiro.au</A>)<BR>mtrr: detected
mtrr type: none<BR>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last
bus=0<BR>PCI: Using configuration type 1<BR>PCI: Probing PCI
hardware<BR>Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.<BR>Linux NET4.0 for Linux
2.4<BR>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039<BR>Initializing
RT netlink socket<BR>apm: BIOS not found.<BR>mxt_scan_bios: enter<BR>Starting
kswapd<BR>kinoded started<BR>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0
initialized<BR>ACPI: disabled by cmdline, exiting<BR>Detected PS/2 Mouse
Port.<BR>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured<BR>Serial driver version 5.05c
(2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI
enabled<BR>Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e<BR>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
Revision: 6.31<BR>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
with idebus=xx<BR>PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38<BR>PIIX: chipset
revision 2<BR>PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later<BR>PIIX: neither
IDE port enabled (BIOS)<BR>PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39<BR>PIIX:
chipset revision 2<BR>PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs
later<BR> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:pio<BR> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS
settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio<BR>hdb: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored<BR>hda: WDC
AC23200L, ATA DISK drive<BR>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14<BR>blk: queue
c0322e64, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)<BR>hda: 6346368 sectors (3249 MB)
w/256KiB Cache, CHS=6296/16/63, (U)DMA<BR>ide-floppy driver
0.99.newide<BR>Partition check:<BR> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3<BR>Floppy drive(s):
fd0 is 1.44M<BR>FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306<BR>RAMDISK driver
initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize<BR>loop: loaded (max 16
devices)<BR>Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994<BR>Linux port
(c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.<BR>ide-floppy
driver 0.99.newide<BR>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00<BR>kmod: failed to
exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2<BR>kmod: failed to exec
/sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2<BR>md: md driver 0.90.0
MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27<BR>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.<BR>md: autorun
...<BR>md: ... autorun DONE.<BR>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0<BR>IP
Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP<BR>IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets,
8Kbytes<BR>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)<BR>Linux IP
multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM<BR>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux
NET4.0.<BR>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0<BR>Freeing initrd memory:
536k freed<BR>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).<BR>reiserfs: checking
transaction log (device 03:03) ...<BR>Using r5 hash to sort names<BR>ReiserFS
version 3.6.25<BR>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.<BR>Trying to
move old root to /initrd ... failed<BR>Unmounting old root<BR>Trying to free
ramdisk memory ... okay<BR>Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed<BR>md:
Autodetecting RAID arrays.<BR>md: autorun ...<BR>md: ... autorun DONE.<BR>Adding
Swap: 254008k swap-space (priority 42)<BR>8139too Fast Ethernet driver
0.9.24<BR>eth0: D-Link DFE-538TX (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xc88e3f00,
00:40:05:7a:b6:b3, IRQ 11<BR>eth0: Identified 8139 chip type
'RTL-8139C'<BR>eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner
ability 0000.<BR>Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre10 (Mar 8,
2002)<BR>tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising
01e1.<BR>eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe800, 00:A0:CC:56:D0:8C, IRQ
10.<BR>Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22<BR> options: [pci]
[cardbus] [pm]<BR>ds: no socket drivers loaded!<BR>unloading Kernel Card
Services<BR>hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'<BR>isapnp: Scanning for
PnP cards...<BR>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found<BR>Linux Kernel Card
Services 3.1.22<BR> options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]<BR>PCI: Enabling
device 00:11.0 (0000 -> 0002)<BR>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of
device 00:11.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.<BR>Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI
irq0<BR>Socket status: 30000810<BR>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding
0xc70-0xc77<BR>cs: IO port probe 0x0816-0x08ff: excluding 0x86e-0x875<BR>cs: IO
port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.<BR>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
0x170-0x177 0x370-0x377 0x470-0x477 0x4d0-0x4d7<BR>cs: IO port probe
0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.<BR>cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.<BR>hostap_cs: 0.0.0 CVS (Jouni Malinen <<A
href="mailto:jkmaline@cc.hut.fi">jkmaline@cc.hut.fi</A>>)<BR>hostap_cs:
setting Vcc=33 (constant)<BR>hostap_cs:
CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION<BR>prism2_config()<BR>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from
config)<BR>Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)<BR>IO window settings:
cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1<BR>io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000,
len=64<BR>hostap_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use<BR>prism2_release<BR>: card
already removed or not configured during shutdown<BR>release -
done<BR>prism2_detach<BR>hostap_free_data: ap has not yet been initialized -
skip resource freeing<BR>IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0<BR>IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling
driver<BR>eth1: no IPv6 routers present<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"pci=biosirq" <- with this turned on, the
machine locks when it loads the pci network cards...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this setting works well with more modern hardware,
but i just have a regular pentium here, and the older bios' dont like that
setting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does any of this help??</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerryf</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>