Re: PCMCIA oddities with 2.2.15 on TP 760ED
Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> Due to a hard drive failure I decided to update my Slink system on
> an older/smaller drive on my ThinkPad 760ED to Potato. All went well,
> so today I decided to update the kernel to 2.2.x and update the PCMCIA
> as well.
>
> As luck would have it, 2.2.14 (which had worked flawlessly for me in the
> past) wasn't available anymore, so I chose 2.2.15 and the related
> PCMCIA-modules package. As insurance I downloaded the source for both.
> The only thing I use PCMCIA for is the 56k Megahertz modem which had
> worked great until this point.
>
> I rebooted the system and was greated by a slew of unresolved symbol
> errors and a non-working modem. So I compiled a custom kernel using
> kpkg and also compiled the PCMCIA package. Had some trouble installing
> them since the kernel maintainer advanced the epoch to 1 and the
> custom kernel was set to 0. But they are installed. Upon reboot
> I still have one unresolved symbol error coming from the module
> dependencies calculations and it is:
>
> depmod: ***Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.15/pcmcia/epic_cb.o
>
> Other than that, there are no obvious errors during init.
>
> pppd files to work and in its log it complains of not being able
> to get terminal parameters, reports and Input/Output error and
> exits.
>
> In /var/log/messages, I find the serial driver is loaded and finds
> the built-in port as shown, but the PCMCIA modem is on a wild port
> and IRQ:
>
> kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options
> kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> .
> kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 5,7,9,10 status change on irq 10
> .
> kernel: tty01 at 0x13f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A
>
> Looking at the same log file from when I booted 2.0.36 this morning,
> I find a different report:
>
> kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
> kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> .
> kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,10 status change on irq 10
> .
> kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
> So, can anyone tell me why PCMCIA is not seeing IRQs 3 and 4 now and
> why it's assigning tty01 to 0x13f8? Perhaps some kind soul can tell
> me how to override this configuration and force it to be normal.
> Strangely, although it assigns tty01 to ttyS1 at 0x13f8 (irq =5),
> pppd can't find it.
>
> What do I do next?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Nate >>
>
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hello,
i had a heck of time with pcmcia when i upgraded slink
to potato. after serveral attempts on different
lapboxes, i was successful. (i said "no" to shutting
down pcmcia card services during the potato install.
after everything was installed, i re-ran "pppconfig"
and was surprised to find that the modem "moved" from
/dev/ttyS0 to /dev/ttyS1, or something like that. as
long as it works, i don't care where it chooses to be.)
anyway, what happens when you boot? do you get two
high beeps for the pcmcia, a hi-low beep sequence, or
no beeps? i re-ran potato's "pppconfig" and let it
probe the ttyS's when i had either the 2 high beeps but
no dial-out or the hi-low beep sequence (and obviously,
no dial-out).
i wouldn't even have an anecdotal recommendation if
there are no beeps. (but, if i were to guess, i'd try
a trusted older kernel, which for me is 2.0.36--yes,
i'm running potato on it, for now.)
hopefully, some others will chime in on this one.
hth.
bentley taylor.
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