IrDA and PCMCIA

From: Micha³ 'CeFeK' Nazarewicz (Michal.Nazarewicz@SayDK.Co.UK)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 10:27:29 EDT

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    Salve,
            That's me again :-) It looks like that I am the only person with
    Dell Latitude CPt using Linux 2.4 or nobody before wrote here -- as I
    can't find a solution to my problems via the web.
            The next problems are:

    1. When I boot up, kernel finishes booting with equally 50% chance. I
    mean, that half of the times I power my system on, it hangs and the second
    half -- it works. It's a bit strange. Take a look:
            When it loads, some of linux kernel output is like this:
    ...
    Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11
      options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
    Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
    ...

            When it hangs, however, it displays only:
    ...
    Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11
      options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]

            Without the next line. I don't know what's wrong on my side --
    kernel 2.2.16 worked just fine... There is a possibility, that I'll check
    later, 'cause it can be my modification to get_random_bytes that just
    returns with exit code 1 instead of writing anything to the text console.

            2. the second issue is not so simple. When I load some modules for
    my IrDA to work:

    ircomm-tty 18376 0 (unused)
    ircomm 6648 0 [ircomm-tty]
    irtty 5092 2
    irport 4544 0 (unused)
    irda 75201 2 [ircomm-tty ircomm irtty irport]

            and fire up irattach and irmanager (btw, smc-ircc module doesn't
    work... Maybe i've got to supply some IO addresses, but I don't know them
    and it's my first day of playing with this...) with devices discovery on,
    it doesn't discover anything. (If anyone want, I can check if it does emit
    any kind of infrared then with my Palm, but for the tests I've been using
    Nokia 7110 mobile phone). When I remove my Xircom CEM-56 PCMCIA card from
    it's slot, suddenly... there is my phone discovered! And if I put this
    PCMCIA card do it's slot, IrDA connection and pc card are working
    seamlessly.

            What should I do? Is this a bug? If so, can I help? I am not a
    coder... and I'm NOT subscribed to this list (I can't fetch it using my
    28k8 dialup connection), so PLEASE CC: every mail in reply to this to
    me...

    -- 
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