On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:13, alan wrote:
Well, I finally got Fedora Core 2 installed on this little Vaio.
Almost
the most painful install on this little beast yet. (One install aborted
about 3/4 of the way through. Not to mention the 12+gig I had to backup
over a slow network...)
When I try and use the PCMCIA CD-ROM, I get the following errors on the
syslog:
Jun 3 23:46:44 localhost cardmgr[1460]: socket 0: Ninja ATA
Jun 3 23:46:45 localhost cardmgr[1460]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
No such device
Jun 3 23:46:45 localhost kernel: ide-cs: GetNextTuple: No more items
The cd-rom drive does not come up.
I remember having to do the similar command line hack to get the drive
working for Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1.
The "pci=off ide1=0x180,0x386" was not needed for Redhat 7.2 or 7.3.
Anything before Redhat 8 never needed the pci=off for the cd-rom drive to
work. (Most of the time all you needed was "ide1=0x180".) I have used
this laptop with about every version of Redhat since about 6.0 or so.
I can go back and test which work and which do not sometime this weekend.
(It just takes time and the "big book of Linux install discs".)
I will also test to see if the port expanded still cores the system.
BTW, the change in working v.s. non-working seemed to be just after
kernel version 2.4.18 or so.
It is even worse than that. If I turn off pci I can no longer access
usb, firewire or the built in crappy winmodem. (The winmodem is no big
loss, but usb is.)
For now, whenever I need to use the cd-rom, I have to reboot the machine
and use those kernel options.
I will test to see if it is anything that uses ide-cs or just the
cdrom. (I have a pcmcia to flash adapter that uses that module, if I
remember right.)
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Alan <alan(a)clueserver.org>