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From: Jordi Molina <warp3r@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Panasonic Toughbook of Doom
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:23:59
Message-Id: 647a40580506020324365ba95@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Panasonic Toughbook of Doom by Ian K
1 Hi!
2
3 On 6/1/05, Ian K <omega_2_1@×××××.ca> wrote:
4 > Jordi Molina wrote:
5 >
6 > >Hi,
7 > >
8 > >On 5/24/05, Ian K <omega_2_1@×××××.ca> wrote:
9 > >
10 > >
11 > >>Hi guys at gentoo laptop.
12 > >>I sent this to the general mailing list but got little response.
13 > >>Can you guys help?
14 > >>Thanks!
15 > >>
16 > >>
17 > >>
18 > >>>Hi there,
19 > >>>
20 > >>>
21 > >>>>>I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop,
22 > >>>>>a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty
23 > >>>>>with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?).
24 > >>>>>When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into
25 > >>>>>the laptop, and do a dmesg, the following is appended:
26 > >>>>>
27 > >>>>>
28 > >>>>>
29 > >
30 > >Can you send also the output of lspci and of lsmod?
31 > >
32 > >
33 > I dont have lspci on the computer, but I do have LSHW:
34 >
35 > (Because of lengthy typing, I will post what I believe is relevant, as well
36 > as the categories of everything else.)
37 >
38 > *-cpu
39 > *-cache:0
40 > *-cache:1
41 > *-memory:0
42 > *-memory:1
43 > *-memory:2
44 > *-memory:3
45 > *-memory:4
46 > *-pci
47 > *-multimedia
48 > *-display
49 > *-pcmcia
50 > description: CardBus Bridge
51 > product: RL5c475
52 > vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
53 > physical id: 3
54 > bus info: pci@00:03.0
55 > version: 80
56 > clock: 33MHz
57 > capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
58 > configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus
59 > resources: Very long, I will provide upon request.
60 > *-isa
61 > description: ISA bridge
62 > product: 82440MX ISA Bridge
63 > vendor: Intel corp.
64 > physical id: 7
65 > bus info: pci@00:07.0
66 > version: 01
67 > clock: 33MHz
68 > capabilities: isa bus_master
69 > *-ide
70 > description: IDE interface
71 > product: 82440MX EIDE Controller
72 > vendor: Intel Corp.
73 > physical id: 7.1
74 > bus info: pci@00:07.1
75 > version: 00
76 > clock: 33MHz
77 > capabilities: ide bus_master
78 > configuration: driver=uhci_hcd
79 > resources: ioport:fcc0-fcdfr irq:10
80 > *-bridge
81 > description: Bridge
82 > product: 8240MX Power Management Controller
83 > vendor: Intel Corp.
84 > physical id: 7.3
85 > bus info: pci@00:07.3
86 > version: 00
87 > clock: 33 MHz
88 >
89 > lsmod shows no modules loaded (at startup)
90 >
91 > >It would be great to have also a filtered output of dmesg for Cardbus
92 > >and/or pcmcia.
93 > >Do it before you plug the card so we can see if the PCMCIA is set up properly.
94 > >
95 > >
96 > # dmesg | grep -i "pcmcia"
97 > Databook TCIT-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
98 >
99 > # dmesg | grep -i "cardbus"
100 > Options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
101 > Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [10f7:832f]
102 >
103 > Also, at bootup, I saw this:
104 > * PCMCIA support detected.
105 > * Starting pcmcia...
106 > cardmgr[5386]: watching 1 socket
107 > cardmgr[5386]: starting, version is
108 > 3.2.5 [ ok ]
109 >
110 > >
111 > >
112 > >>>>>cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean
113 > >>>>>cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean
114 > >>>>>cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean
115 > >>>>>cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean
116 > >>>>>cs: pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power.
117 > >>>>>
118 > >>>>>
119 > >
120 > >from what I understand here, the powemanagement thing is not working
121 > >properly on the device.
122 > >
123 > >
124 > >
125 > >>>>>irq 9: nobody cared!
126 > >>>>>[<c013d88a>] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0xa0
127 > >>>>>[<c012d200>] handle_IRQ_event+0x30/0x70
128 > >>>>>[<c013d990>] note_interrupt+0x70/0xb0
129 > >>>>>[<c013d367>] __do_IRQ+0x127/0x130
130 > >>>>>[<c0105772>] do_IRQ+0x52/0x80
131 > >>>>>=================
132 > >>>>>[<c0103c1e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
133 > >>>>>[<c012007b>] do_exit+0xcb/0x380
134 > >>>>>[<c0122836>] __do_softirq+0x46/0xd0
135 > >>>>>[<c01058a9>] do_softirq+0x69/0x70
136 > >>>>>=================
137 > >>>>>[<c012299b>] irq_exit+0x3b/0x40
138 > >>>>>[<c0105779>] do_IRQ+0x59/0x80
139 > >>>>>[<c0103c1e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
140 > >>>>>[<c02ee68d>] acpi_processor_idle+0x126/0x262
141 > >>>>>[<c01010ff>] cpu_idle+0x5f/0x70
142 > >>>>>[<c05e1988>] start_kernel+0x158/0x180
143 > >>>>>[<c05e1390>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1e0
144 > >>>>>handlers:
145 > >>>>>[<c02d2b10>] (acpi_irq+0x0/0x16)
146 > >>>>>[<c03960f0>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0x40)
147 > >>>>>[<c03fd230>] (snd_intel8x0_interrupt+0x0/0x220)
148 > >>>>>Disabling IRQ #9
149 > >>>>>
150 > >>>>>So thats the output. What does it mean? Am I on the right track?
151 > >>>>>
152 > >>>>>
153 > >
154 > >Im sorry to say that maybe... not.
155 > >
156 > >
157 > >
158 > >>>>>If so, does anyone know if his wireless card works under Linux?
159 > >>>>>Its a D-Link Airplus DWL-650+
160 > >>>>>
161 > >>>>>
162 > >
163 > >Not really, but you can have a look at the opensource driver project
164 > >for this card:
165 > >http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
166 > >
167 > >I recommend you downloading the tarball with the source and then
168 > >reading the entire documentation.
169 > >
170 > >
171 > >
172 > >>>>>Thanks!
173 > >>>>>
174 > >>>>>
175 > >
176 > >No prob!
177 > >
178 > >
179 > >
180 > >>
181 > >>
182 > >>
183 > >
184 > >
185 > >
186 > So what do you think?
187 > Thanks very much!
188 > Ian
189 >
190 >
191 >
192 >
193 Cool, you've the same PCMCIA than me (I owe an Acer TM370, just for info).
194
195 I had tons of problems for making it work, since, one day, it just
196 worked. Anyway, in your case it seems to be detected...
197
198 Did you check the webpage i sent on the previous mail with the project
199 of the driver?
200
201
202 cheers
203
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