by in a nut shell; I had pcmcia working, setup sound and now it does not.
full details;
hi,
I am running debian 2.2.18 on a compaq lte 5000.
It has no CDROM drive so I use a pcmcia external which has worked from day
one with no configuration.
I have spent sometime getting a pcmcia compact flash card to work and
adventualy it mounted fine as vfat.
Since then I have got sound working as a soundblaster compatable.
works fine but now the pcmcia CDROM and compaq flash. can not be mounted.
(note: a pcmcia 3com network card never has any problems.)
When inserting either CDROM or the flash into the PCMCIA slot I get one high
beep and then one low beep and NO futher
information as aposed to the normal two high beeps and a read out of the
type of card on the console.
when running "cardctl ident" both devices are recognised as they should be
but i can not mount them. (i tried one at a time)
mount gives an error about /dev/hdc being not recognised as a block device
and a comment "(maybe 'insmod driver')".
lsmod clearly lists all the correct pcmcia bits.
ds
i82365
pcmcia_core
my guess is that the PCMCIA used to use irq 5 (or some other resource) and
now the sound card has taken that and will not give it back.
cat /proc/interrupts
0 timer
1 keyboard
2 cascade
5 sound blaster
8 rtc
12 ps/2 mouse
13 flpu
14 ide
and I exclude 3,4,5,7 in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
The default settings in config.opts (which worked previously) are
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
include memory 0xc0000-oxfffff
include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff, memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff
I tried excluding the "port 0x100-0x4ff" as the SB uses 220 to no avail.
I tried to remove all traces of the sound via
rmmod sb
rmmod uart401
rmmod sound
rmmod soundcore
rmmod soundlow
and although this clears the /proc/interrupts 5 still no luck
What else could be holding sound settings that are conflicting with the
PCMCIA stuff ?
what do ide block devices mounted from PCMCIA normal use for irqs ?
can i tell the soundblaster to use a different irq ?
any ideas ?