On Wed, 7 May 2003 11:24:43 -0700 Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com> wrote: > I recently got a new Dell Latitude 610 and immediatley dumped W2K and > installed Debian sarge. I compiled my own kernel and it was working > fine. I then needed to make sure my Wireless LAN card worked, and > found that it couldn't get dev resources when inserted. It would load > hermes, which in turn loads the orinoco and orinoco_cs modules. > Here's the error I got in syslog: --- > After fighting this for a few hours, I got a hunch...in my custom > kernel I did not include ISA Bus support nor ISA Plug-n-Play support. > I didn't think I needed that on what i thought was a purely PCI > system. Well, apparently there is a relationship between the PCMCIA > Cardbus and the ISA bus, because I recompiled my kernel adding the ISA > stuff back and now it works fine. > > Perhaps someone can explain this to me, since I don't really get it > beyond the hunch I had. I don't get it either, but there's something else going on. I have an Inspiron 8000 (almost 2 years old); I'm told Inspiron and Latitude systems of the same vintage have the same motherboards. I'm running kernel 2.4.20, without any ISA, EISA or Plug-and-Play support. I have an old 3Com network card and an Orinoco Gold wireless card, and they both work just fine. So ISA support is not required for PCMCIA. Attached is my current kernel config. Kevin
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