[Sussex] PCMCIA IRQ conflicts

[Steve Dobson]

Derek

On 23 September 2003 at 20:44 Derek Harding wrote:
> My brother-in-law, over from the US, uses a camera with an 
> old style Flash memory card. I have a PCMCIA flach card 
> adapter and all is fine at the hardware level.
> 
> I'm running kernel-pcmcia on a Dell Inspiron and a Compaq 
> Armada running SuSE 8.2 and 8.1 respectively.
> 
> On BOTH machines, I can't run any pcmcia cards because as 
> soon as I insert them I get an "IRQ in use" error. Both 
> machines have two on-board pcmcia devices as well as two 
> slots. It seems as though IRQ 10 is the problem and that is 
> run up with the usb hotplug but even though I stop that 
> service and rmmod all suspect modules it still chucks up this 
> error (is it pcnet_cs which is what is trying to run I wonder?).

I don't and have never run SuSE, so I don't know what kernel
version you are running.

Take a look at /proc/interrupts as this will list which devices
are using which interrupts.  From there you might be able to
trace back the problem.
 
If you're coming along tomorrow night then bring the kit alone
and we can take a look.

Steve