[MLB-WIRELESS] RICOH Cards in PCI2.0 boxen

[Matt Chipman]

> > I am trying to get it to work in a FIC PA-2007 board which has the VIA
VP2
> > chipset (VT82C586A/VT82C595).  There is no beep when I insert or remove
> the
> > wireless card.  Interrupt count in /proc/interrupts is 0.  I would
assume
> an
> > IRQ would be generated when the card is inserted or removed... this
isn't
> > happening so it's just not working.  Humph.  And double Humph.
>
> I seem to remember this can be fixed by an irq setting in the lilo.conf
when
> the system loads .... will try and dig up the info.
>


I found the info ... it is here

http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-user/2001-August/002166.htm
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-Matt


--exerpt--

> Woohoo! I found my problem! I thought I'd pass along the info incase
> someone
> has a similar problem!
>
> The Interrupt for my PCMCIA port (Ricoh R5C475 PCMCIA->PCI Adapter) was
> not
> working.
>
> I had tested the install of Card Services with a NE2000 PCMCIA adapter and
> was convinced everything with that was working correctly. You could surf
> the
> web, ping stuff, etc...
>
> Apparently the pcnet_cs driver will fallback to high speed polling if it
> detects there is a problem with the interrupt.
>
> I noticed that /proc/interrupts showed the interrupt count as 0 :
>
>            CPU0
>
>   5:          0          XT-PIC  i82365, pcnet_cs
>
> The solution was to add
>
> append="pci=biosirq" to lilo.conf
>
> Optionally, if you don't use LILO, you can change the following line in
> your
> kernel config from:
>
> # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
>
> to:
>
> CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS=y
>
> also...




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