Compaq Laptop cardmgr problem with Orinoco card

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Compaq Laptop cardmgr problem with Orinoco card
started by: electric_mayhem

Posted by electric_mayhem on Jan. 05 2006,04:57

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.

Posted by electric_mayhem on Jan. 30 2006,05:10

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.