Orinoco/Redhat/IRQ help please

[Joseph R. Skoler]

In working with computers for 20 years I have never been so frustrated.

It's been months that I'm trying to get this system working.

I'm running RedHat 7.2 on a desktop PC, with pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 compiled.  I
did not recompile the kernel w/out pcmcia support because I don't know how
(and all the howto's out are of no help).

I've got a pci-pcmcia bridge (by Orinoco) and an Orinoco Gold card.

Using the Orinoco-09 drivers patched by snax.

The machine recognizes the Orinoco, but no good packets come through.

dmesg is filled with:

eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt!

/var/log/messages is filled with:

Jun 11 04:19:06 localhost kernel: eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt!
Jun 11 04:19:37 localhost last message repeated 64 times
Jun 11 04:20:38 localhost last message repeated 123 times

lsmod shows:

[root at localhost pcmcia]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i810_audio             14544   0  (autoclean)
ac97_codec              8832   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               4464   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
orinoco_cs              4736   2
orinoco                29744   0  [orinoco_cs]
hermes                  3520   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds                      7056   1  [orinoco_cs]
yenta_socket            9488   1
pcmcia_core            41600   0  [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
autofs                 11520   0  (autoclean) (unused)
3c59x                  26336   1
appletalk              20912   0  (autoclean)
ipx                    16448   0  (autoclean)
usb-uhci               21536   0  (unused)
usbcore                51712   1  [usb-uhci]
ext3                   64624   2
jbd                    40992   2  [ext3]

/proc/interrupts:

  0:    3983369          XT-PIC  timer
  1:          4          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
 11:       5202          XT-PIC  eth0, Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card
Cardbus Controller, orinoco_cs
 12:          0          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, PS/2 Mouse
 14:      11272          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:          0          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

So, research leads me to believe that there's an IRQ conflict.  So, I
excluded irq 11 from /etc/pcmcia/config.opts ("exclude irq 11").  Didn't
help.

What can I do -- help please!

Thanks,

Joseph R. Skoler
joseph at compuhelp.com <mailto:joseph at compuhelp.com>
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