Re: Dell TrueMobile 1150 PCMCIA/Orinoco/Yenta problem w/ 2.6.4/5

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 07:54, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 23:31 -0400, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> > 	I'm working with a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, and I've tried SuSE
> > 9.1 Pro (2.6.4-54.5) and Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5-x I think, but I'm on SuSE
> > now).  The laptop has 2 normal PCMCIA slots, and a Dell TrueMobile 1150
> > mini-PCI card, which is apparently implemented as a PCMCIA card in a 3rd
> > PCMCIA slot (handled by the orinoco_cs driver).

I had similar problems with a TI controller myself, until I upgraded to
kernel 2.6.6.

This entry in the 2.6.6 ChangeLog seems to have made the cure:

> <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> 
> 	[PATCH] yenta: interrupt routing for TI briges
> 	
> 	Some TI cardbus bridges found in notebooks and PCI add-on cards are
> 	uninitialized.  This means the interrupt mode and the interrupt routing
> 	is wrong in most cases, ending up in non working PCI interrupts.
> 
> 	This makes the TI Yenta driver probe the PCI interrupt and adjust the
> 	interrupt setting if no interrupts are delivered.  It's done in a safe
> 	way, that doesn't hurt working setups.
> 	
> 	Function 1 on two slot devices is handled differently from function 0
> 	since both share the settings.

I hope this helps,

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