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Hola, |
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I've got this old laptop that I'm bringing back from the dead (attic) for a |
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special project. It needs sound and network capability. As it's a 300MHz |
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PII, and I'm running gentoo on the 3GHz home server, I thought the |
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optimizations of gentoo might pay off. |
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First, I did a stage 3 install. Everything went fine until I lost the network |
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connection. Nothing I did could bring it back. However, it always worked |
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with the Universal 2005.0/1 disks, so there was nothing wrong with the |
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hardware. |
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I went with a stage 1 install, This worked for a couple weeks, while I spent |
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time getting all the tweaks done. Then I popped in a Cisco Aironet 350, |
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thinking I could make the laptop mobile. |
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All networking died. Rebooting, no help. |
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Rebuilding kernel with no Aironet support, no help. Loading an older kernel |
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with networking yes, sound no, still broke. |
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The network card I've used is a 3Com 3c589D. Upon boot with the |
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2.6.13-gentoo-r3 kernel, it was detected and assign it's correct static IP. |
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Further inspection indicated that it had no route, and I could not add the |
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route. Apparently, there might be an issue with the yenta_socket module and |
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ACPI. At least, that's what the Google searches indicate. So, after a full |
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day and a half of banging my head against the wall, I tried using |
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2.6.12-gentoo-r10 sources. I make menuconfig, make && make modules_install |
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and the damn thing works upon reboot. |
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Again, this is a software issue only. Using the Universal install CD, or even |
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Fedora, everything works fine. |
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So here's the hardware |
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IBM Thinkpad 770X (8MB Video Ram) |
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256MB RAM |
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3Com 3c589D pcmcia network card |
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-- Modules for pcmcia card |
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3c589_cs |
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pcmcia |
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yenta_socket |
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rsrc_nonstatic |
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pcmcia_core |
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Kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 worked for a long time. Once it stopped working, it |
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stopped working forever (or until I figure it out). |
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Problem seems to be with IRQ issues, as this is what I saw |
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in /var/log/messages |
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Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0 no PCI interrupts. Fish. |
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Please report. |
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Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta: no PCI IRQ, CardBus support disabled for this |
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socket. |
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Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta: check your BIOS CardBus, BIOS IRQ or ACPI settings. |
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Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 0 |
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--- and other like this.... |
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Oct 30 11:46:04 tux cardmgr[15669]: socket 1: 3Com 589 Ethernet |
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Oct 30 11:46:04 tux eth0: 3Com 3c589, io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr |
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00:60:08:25:40:E0 |
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Oct 30 11:46:04 tux 8K FIFO split 5:3 Rx:Tx, auto xcvr |
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Oct 30 11:46:25 tux eth0: flipped to 10baseT |
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Oct 30 11:46:37 tux eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! |
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Any help will be greatly appreciated. |
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Peter |
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