[gentoo-laptop] Panasonic Toughbook of Doom

[Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca>]

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Hi guys at gentoo laptop.
I sent this to the general mailing list but got little response.
Can you guys help?
Thanks!

>Hi there,
>>>I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop,
>>>a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty
>>>with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?).
>>>When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into
>>>the laptop, and do a dmesg, the following is appended:
>>>    
>
>>>cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean
>>>cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean
>>>cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean
>>>cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean
>>>cs: pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power.
>>>irq 9: nobody cared!
>>> [<c013d88a>] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0xa0
>>> [<c012d200>] handle_IRQ_event+0x30/0x70
>>> [<c013d990>] note_interrupt+0x70/0xb0
>>> [<c013d367>] __do_IRQ+0x127/0x130
>>> [<c0105772>] do_IRQ+0x52/0x80
>>> =================
>>> [<c0103c1e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
>>> [<c012007b>] do_exit+0xcb/0x380
>>> [<c0122836>] __do_softirq+0x46/0xd0
>>> [<c01058a9>] do_softirq+0x69/0x70
>>>=================
>>> [<c012299b>] irq_exit+0x3b/0x40
>>> [<c0105779>] do_IRQ+0x59/0x80
>>> [<c0103c1e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
>>> [<c02ee68d>] acpi_processor_idle+0x126/0x262
>>> [<c01010ff>] cpu_idle+0x5f/0x70
>>> [<c05e1988>] start_kernel+0x158/0x180
>>> [<c05e1390>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1e0
>>>handlers:
>>>[<c02d2b10>] (acpi_irq+0x0/0x16)
>>>[<c03960f0>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0x40)
>>>[<c03fd230>] (snd_intel8x0_interrupt+0x0/0x220)
>>>Disabling IRQ #9
>>>
>>>So thats the output. What does it mean? Am I on the right track?
>>>If so, does anyone know if his wireless card works under Linux?
>>>Its a D-Link Airplus DWL-650+
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>    
>

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