USB Mouse not working with PCMCIA Network Card

Salvio salvio at geneticmail.com
Tue Dec 9 19:25:35 UTC 2003


Kai, it worked. Thanks.


Kai Thomsen wrote:

>Salvio wrote:
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>>Kai Thomsen wrote:
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>>>[...]
>>>This most likely indicates an incorrect PCI interrupt (IRQ) routing,
>>>and you should try letting the kernel ACPI subsystem configure it:
>>>
>>>Add the option "acpi=on" (although "pci=acpi" should suffice, you'd
>>>be potentially missing other ACPI features) to your kernel boot
>>>parameters, either via the GRUB boot menu or, for a permanent
>>>change, by appending it to the appropriate "kernel" line in
>>>/boot/grub/grub.conf.
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>>Thanks Kai, I'll let you know how that goes... I do not
>>have access to that computer at the moment and will try
>>your suggestion later this week.
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>>What do you mean by:
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>>"you'd be potentially missing other ACPI features"
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>If your hardware and BIOS support ACPI (to a certain extent) and you use
>"pci=acpi" instead of "acpi=on", you won't benefit from features such as
>battery and thermal status, battery/power-button/lid event notification,
>hardware ACPI sleep etc.
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>Of course, which ones of these work depends on Dell's specific ACPI
>implementation and the ACPI support in the FC1 kernel.
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>--Kai
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