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 Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: PCMCIA, eth0, kernel troubles [solved] |
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I've been having all kinds of trouble getting my Dell Inspiron 4000 to load pcmcia for me. This is strange, because I installed off of the Redeeman LiveCD, which started pcmcia and my Truemobile/orinoco wireless pcmcia card perfectly. I'm even using the same kernel as the LiveCD, kernel-2.6.7-Redeeman3. I am using pcmcia-cs. When pcmcia is added to default, the kernel hangs with cardmgr. When I try to start pcmcia manually, the computer would either hang, with no output, or loop a bunch of errors to fast to read. Once I stopped net.eth0 from running at boot, I now get a kernel panic:
| Code: | <0>kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handler - not syncing |
I've tried removing everything pcmcia related except cardbus/pcmcia support and yenta support from the kernel, as well as hotplug from boot, with still no help. I've also played with /etc/pcmcia/config.opts as is recommended elsewhere on the forum. Any ideas?
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Nevermind...I played around with my kernel, enabling acpi and apm with no options, disabled APIC support, and things started working again. 
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Actually, I take that back. After going back and experimenting with the kernel a little more, it seems that the 4k stacks option was the problem. Once I disabled 4k stacks, things worked. Power management and APIC don't seem to have any effect. Anyone know why 4k stacks might interfere with pcmcia function (and I'm not using an nvidia card!)? I googled for this and others have noticed this problem. So, if you have a problem with getting your pcmcia wireless card to work, you have yet another thing to try.
I hope that this helps someone get their wireless working!
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Im in the same boat as you...
What 4K stack setting are you referring to? Is it the linux boot command line or the cardctl config file?
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