Booting from the gentoo 2005.1 minimal CD on a Thinkpad 380z fails to initialize the PCMCIA system. I get the following error message in the system logs: Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62 irq 10: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) I have inserted a 8139too-based PCMCIA nic in the slot. I have several TP systems, and have been able to reproduce this with all systems and with different PCMCIA cards. Full dmesg is attached. Although the card is recognized, it is not usable - I cannot assign IP adresses. Booting with irqpoll as a kernel argument does not fix the issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert CD in drive 2.power on system 3.wait Actual Results: See details. Expected Results: Cleanly recognize and initialise the PCMCIA subsystem (as always has been the case). This is the first time I have encountered this.
Created attachment 73250 [details] Full dmesg from booting
try booting with: gentoo-nofb nosmp noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=biosirq good luck. roger
Also, try the new 2005.1-r1 CD. It has an updated kernel, so any kernel-related bugs might be resolved.
Booting the 2005.1-r1 CD with kernel parameter acpi=off seems to resolve the problem. After that I am able to initialise the PCMCIA NIC. It loads the wrong module, but I will open a new bug for that. cat /proc/cmdline: initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs dokeymap cdroot vga=791 splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo acpi=off
OK. I'm going to resolve this one, then, as there is a workaround available.
