I am unable to mount my compact flash card with a pcmcia compact flash
reader on SuSE 8.2. I googled on the topic, and found very little. The
only suggestion that I found was to change from "kernel" to "externel"
pcmcia, but this only locks up my system (as do many things apparently).
Here is what I see in /var/log/messages when I insert the card:
Jun 9 20:59:08 coolguy cardmgr[1500]: socket 1: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
Jun 9 20:59:08 coolguy cardmgr[1500]: executing: 'insmod -v
/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/ide-cs.o'
Jun 9 20:59:08 coolguy cardmgr[1500]: + Using
/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/ide-cs.o
Jun 9 20:59:08 coolguy cardmgr[1500]: + Symbol version prefix ''
Jun 9 20:59:08 coolguy kernel: ide-cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
Jun 9 20:59:09 coolguy cardmgr[1500]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
So it seems that it doesn't like the choice of irq. However, I don't
know what irq it is requesting, and I don't know how to change it
either.
I see there is a section in the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file
(PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS) where I can list free irqs. Honestly, I don't know
how to obtail a list of free irqs. When I used to work with Windows I
seem to remember that 9 was typically open, and 3 and 4 are typically
used for hard drives.
Any help would be appreciated.
- Pete
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Pete Goodall