I have two pcmcia wireless cards, prism54 and rt2500. Both have an issue where if the card is inserted and then the system is booted the card is found. Otherwise, the card is found only after every other insertion, like so inserted = not found removed + inserted = found removed + inserted = not found removed + inserted = found removed + inserted = not found removed + inserted = found removed + inserted = not found etc. By not found I mean I see nothing at all in my logs. I normally see this Mar 23 19:26:56 uberlaptop pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0 Mar 23 19:26:57 uberlaptop PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) Mar 23 19:26:57 uberlaptop ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNK5] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Mar 23 19:26:57 uberlaptop rt2500 1.1.0 BETA3 2005/07/31 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com Mar 23 19:26:57 uberlaptop PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64 Mar 23 19:26:57 uberlaptop ra0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver ! Mar 23 21:09:51 uberlaptop pccard: card ejected from slot 0 Mar 23 21:09:51 uberlaptop ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled card is inserted again and nothing happens, nothing in logs card is removed and inserted again and I get this Mar 23 21:10:12 uberlaptop pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0 Mar 23 21:10:12 uberlaptop PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) Mar 23 21:10:12 uberlaptop ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNK5] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Mar 23 21:10:12 uberlaptop rt2500 1.1.0 BETA3 2005/07/31 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com Mar 23 21:10:12 uberlaptop PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64 And we start working again. Using 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 on x86 - but this has been happening ever since I installed Gentoo on this laptop with udev and I just got around to reporting it - lol.
Please reproduce on the latest kernel, currently 2.6.16.
gentoo-sources-2.6.16 has the same issue
Same on vanilla-2.6.16 BTW, this is on a Compaq Presario 2100US
Are there any BIOS updates available?
No. The bad news is that after the laptop was dropped with a card in the slot, the pcmcia slot no longer works :( So there's nothing I can do with this bug atm. If I get the laptop repaired and this bug still happens then I'll re-open it. The bug is still valid though, so I'll mark it as LATER.
