[lug] Mandrake 9 on Thinkpad loads all but ethernet pcmcia card

[Jeffrey Veiss]

Hi all!

I was wondering if anyone can suggest something else I can do to try and
debug this.

I'm having an interesting problem when I insert a Megahertz 3CXFE575BT
ethernet pcmcia card into my IBM Thinkpad T20 running Mandrake 9.

It's apparently trying to use IRQ 11 which is already being shared by the sound
and USB devices.  However, if I hard code IRQ's in the BIOS (there doesn't seem
to be a switch to turn of Plug n Play), it uses one that's only be used by the
PCMCIA bus and still yields the same errors.

On the other hand, I also have a Megahertz PCMCIA modem and various memory
cards, all of which work just dandy.  I also didn't have any problems with
Mandrake 8.2.

I've also tried rmmod'ing all the devices it seems to be trying to load
(usb, sound, internal ethernet) and it still yields the same errors.

Does anyone know either what the problem is or any direction I can go in to
debug this?

Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance!

-Jeff


Here's the excerpt from the syslog when I insert the card.  Note that hotplug
is seemingly trying to load drivers for the 3com PC card, USB, sound, and
internal ethernet (mini-pci).

Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5157
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: pcimodules is scanning more than  ...
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: Setup 3c59x usb-uhci uhci snd-cs46xx cs46xx cs461x eepro100 e100 yenta_socket for PCI slot 02:00.0
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname kernel: 02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus at 0x4000. Vers LK1.1.16
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: ... blacklisted module:  usb-uhci
Nov 13 13:42:43 myhostname /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/uhci.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/uhci.o.gz failed
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod uhci failed
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: ... can't load module uhci
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver uhci
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname kernel: Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o.gz failed
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod snd-cs46xx failed
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: ... can't load module snd-cs46xx
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver snd-cs46xx
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/cs461x.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/cs461x.o.gz failed
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod cs461x failed
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: ... can't load module cs461x
Nov 13 13:42:44 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver cs461x
Nov 13 13:42:45 myhostname insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/e100/e100.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Nov 13 13:42:45 myhostname insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Nov 13 13:42:45 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/e100/e100.o.gz failed
Nov 13 13:42:45 myhostname modprobe: modprobe: insmod e100 failed
Nov 13 13:42:45 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: ... can't load module e100
Nov 13 13:42:45 myhostname /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver e100

Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at
blug at sirveiss.com.  Thank you very much!

Jeffrey Veiss, CCNA, CISSP, TICSA             Sir Veiss, Inc.
Network Engineer/System Administrator         blug at sirveiss.com