On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Juan C. Amengual wrote: > Dear sirs, > > first of all, beg your pardon for the dramatical subject of this e-mail > ;-), but I'm really desperated. My problem: > > I have an ASUS F7400 Laptop (a.k.a. ASUS Grandio Laptop). I have > installed Debian 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato). I have a PCMCIA SCSI Card: Adaptec > SlimSCSI 1480A Cardbus (Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host Adapter). I am still > trying to make it work under Potato. When I insert the card in any > socket, I always receive the following message: > > aic7xxx: <Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI controller> at PCI 35/0/0 > aic7xxx: I/O ports already in use, ignoring. > scsi : 0 hosts. > > I can't imagine why the I/O ports are already in use. Well, let's tell > the whole story.
Ummm, I have had similar problems with the deb pcmcia - except its not pcmcia, its setserial. If you are not using the non pcmcia ports for any thing strange try just removing S30setserial link from /etc/rcS.d: if there is nothing going on then there is no need to run setserial - as is the case in many of the rpm systems. If setserial runs at boot it seems to make cardservices think the port is busy... I don't know why, but just turning setserial off works for me :-\. regards, erik
