kernel panic on ze4101

[Jacek Pliszka]

I can't say much more.
Works fine for me. And PCMCIA
should work with newest
pcmcia-cs. I've been just
watching "Friends" divx on it.
I also made a webpage:


http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pliszka/hints/notebooks/ZE4101.html

[Martin Tzanov]

I have the same problem, when I try to install Red Har 7.2, 7.3, 8.0. I noticed that when computer crashes while initializing PC Card, there is a message, part of which is "bank 3".One can see that under memory in sys info from 3DMark there are realy 3 banks memory recognized. Also SiSoft Sandra doesn't give any information about memory banks, but it says " Disabled host controllers are present. Check BIOS". Probably we have BIOS problem.

[mike pelletier]

u can get by that message by using "linux nopcmcia" when starting the install

[Yong Xi]

Mike, the freeze problem is really not "freeze". It's actually the keyboard not responding. To install the system, you should specify "nousb" as well as "nopcmcia".

Also, after you have installed the system, before booting into the system. You should add a kernel option "noisapnp".

BTW, I have installed Redhat 7.3 and I can use the touchpad, even the scroll bar is working perfectly. But after I upgraded it to Redhat 8.0, the touchpad is still working but the scroll bar is not working any more. Anyone has any idea about that?

Also, I would like to try to add APM and PCMCIA support. Anyone could shine some information on that?

Thanks.

[Crazzy]

Jacek Pliszka, thanks a bunch for putting up all that useful info about Linux on laptops on your webpage. I found it very helpful, and will post your link to a couple other forums too.

[Crazzy]

Yong Xi,
I had a couple friends say that they used the latest pcmcia-cs kernel to get their pcmcia working under redhat 8.0. I haven't tried it out myself, but will let you know what happens when I do so.

[Jacek Pliszka]

Hi!

Well, I am during the tests
of newest stable kernel:
24.20-rc1 and newest stable pcmcia-cs-3.2.1. I will post
results to source forge
pcmcia forum here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=757551&forum_id=7049

So far, nothing works and I tried quite a few things.

BR,

Jacek

[Jacek Pliszka]

OK,

I got reply from David Hinds
and it looks like it is faulty
BIOS so we have two ways:

1. Ask HP for fix

2. Ask Linux kernel people
for fix

David claims that problem lies
int he routing conflict - this
is relevant part of /proc/pci:

Intel ISA/OCU/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
IRQ routing conflict for 00:0a.0, have irq 5, want irq 11
02Micro 0Z6912 rev 00 PCI-to_Cardbus at slot 00:0a, mem 0x80000000
host optos [0]: [pci/way] [pci irq 5] [lat 32/32] [bus 2/5]

HP people, if any of
you are reading this lists,
pleas respond/do something
about it. We are your
customers.

BR,

Jacek

[Martin Tzanov]

Did any of you succeeded in modem instalation?
I downloaded the driver from conexant.com link and it recognized the modem vendor and device, but when I try to run kppp it says "modem busy".

[Jacek Pliszka]

Do you all have O2Micro PCMCIA controller or problems are with
TI controller as well ???

I returned KA with O2Micro to store and ordered KB with TI.

To Ken Giusti: I can not
reply to your e-mail as my
e-mail to you
gets bounced with an error.
So if you want a reply - you need to give another e-mail address.

Short reply is: no,
there was no help from HP
at all. This quite unpleasant
as we want just a little - just PCMCIA working as
everything else does work.