Laptops :: xircom cardbus card - weird problem

Any suggestions on anything I could try?

OK. Try these. Maybe someone in the community will see something.

Post the results of:

sudo cardctl ident

dmesg | grep irq

Check to see if irq conflict

sudo cardctl ident:

Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Xircom", "CardBus Ethernet II 10/100", :CBEII-10/100", "1.03"
manfid: 0x0105, 0x0103
function: 6 (network)

dmesg | grep irq:

PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Yenta ISA IRQ mask0x0c90, PCI irq 0
Yenta ISA IRQ mask0x0c90, PCI irq 0
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550a

Any help would be great, thanks.

The Yenta irq 0 looks like trouble to me.
You might try looking into bios regarding irq assignments or trying using a combination of these boot code for your particular hardware.

noapic pnpbios=off pci=bios acpi=off

Googling Tecra 8000 pcmcia results in particular this post which might apply

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