Hi All! I'm working a long time now (for about a year) to get debian working on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX101. Without a network it's working now, but the problem I can't get over is this:
The PCMCIA network card uses is a realtek chipset, so I'm obliged to use kernels 2.4.28 to 2.4.20 at most. This because the driver is not open source and only compiled against those kernels. The problem is that I can't get an IRQ assigned to the pcmcia controller. Today though i did managed to persuade the machine to assign an IRQ to the controller...which happened to be IRQ 9. But when it does, the screen stops with scrolling en shows only the message that irq 9 is assigned and the machine keeps on booting. So when I make a serial connection to the machine, I can see in /var/log/messages that the PCMCIA controller (ricoh) has been assigned IRQ 9. But the screen is halted. So now I have an working pcmcia controller, only I can't see! ;-( >From various documents ion the Internet I know that it is possible to get linux working on this hardware, but as of yet I'm not successful. How can I change my video IRQ or PCMCIA IRQ during initialization? Some tech. data: Description Vendor Component Driver Status Graphics Intel i815EM i810 (X11) works Graphics Intel i815EM fb (i810fb,X11) works Touchpad Alps Glidepoint PS/2 (kernel) works Sound Intel AC'97/ICH2 i810 (kernel) works PCMCIA Ricoh RL5c478 II i82565 (pcmcia-cs) not working! USB Intel ICH2 JE-UHCI (kernel) works ParPort Intel ICH2 parport (kernel) works Serial Port Intel ICH2 serial (kernel) works Modem Conexant,Intel AC'97/ICH2 HSF-Linmodem (Conexant) untested Firewire Texas Instruments unknown fw-ohci (kernel) untested APM Sony BIOS apm (kernel) not functional ACPI Sony BIOS acpi (acpi.sf.net) partly working causing me troubles... Can anyone give me some hints as where I can find more info to get this machine working? Or better: what to do except installing WinXP (because that is what Sony wants..;-( ) Eduard -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any attachment(s) sent with it are intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be used by, opened by, passed on to, or made available for use to, any person other than the addressee(s). Stork rules out any and all liabilities resulting from any electronic transmission. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
