Laptops :: Compaq Laptop cardmgr problem with Orinoco card



During boot of dsl (1.5,2.0 and 2.1rc2) the folowing is displayed:
cardmgr[52]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

This same hardware worked under Ubuntu.  DSL recognizes and uses a wired ethernet pcmcia card if it is inserted.  The problem is the same for either socket. Disabling onboard peripherals (serial,parrallel port, sound) to free up interrupts didn't help.  Booting with noapic,noapm,nousb options didn't help.

The Orinoco Gold wireless card is identified by: cardctl ident
Socket 0:
 product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
 manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
 function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
 no product info available




Appropriate lines from dmesg output:

hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: failed to initialize firmware (err = -19)
orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed
orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=c457a800)

lsmod output:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
soundcore               3428   0 (autoclean)
apm                     9736   1 (autoclean)
ext3                   64388   0 (autoclean)
jbd                    46804   0 (autoclean)  [ext3]
mousedev                3832   0 (unused)
hid                    22788   0 (unused)
input                   3168   0 [mousedev hid]
usbcore                58240   0 [hid]
cloop                  39364   0 (unused)
serial                 52196   0 (autoclean)
ieee1394              183300   0
orinoco_cs              4468   0 (unused)
orinoco                32940   0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes                  5124   0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds                      6536   2 [orinoco_cs]
yenta_socket            9700   2
pcmcia_core            39840   0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
ide-cd                 28768   0
ide-scsi                9264   0
rtc                     7004   0 (autoclean)

lspci output:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation NorthStar CPU to PCI Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86cM65 [Aurora64V+] (rev 43)
0000:00:0e.0 ISA bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation MIS-L (rev 04)
0000:00:0e.1 IDE interface: Compaq Computer Corporation Triflex Dual EIDE Controller (rev 03)

I really like DSL and it is just perfect for this Compaq 7380 DMT laptop.
Unfortunately the only solution so far is to install Ubuntu 5.10 with the server option, edit /etc/sources.list to uncomment mulitverse and universe and apt-get install xubuntu.  Not as quick as DSL but the wireless card works perfectly.

original here.