PCG-R505TE

okay, so i still am having troubles with my Sony Vaio PCG-R505TE and it's NetGear FA511 PCMCIA CardBus network adapter.

seeing as the laptop was unable to get on the network it is naturally rather difficult to get these text files onto this computer (i can't exactly type out the output of dmesg) but i managed to get it all over on a floppy...

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output from dmesg:

ne(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28288 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD                      ) @ 0x000f7120
ACPI: RSDT (v001 SONY   U1       08193.00786) @ 0x07cf74cb
ACPI: FADT (v001   SONY       U1 08193.00786) @ 0x07cfbf64
ACPI: BOOT (v001   SONY       U1 08193.00786) @ 0x07cfbfd8
ACPI: MADT not present
Sony Vaio laptop detected.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz pci=biosirq,noapic
PCI: Unknown option `noapic'
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 745.266 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1487.66 BogoMIPS
Memory: 124616k/129536k available (1786k kernel code, 4464k reserved, 729k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 730.88 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 745.2235 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.3630 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 993630, slice: 496815
CPU0<T0:993616,T1:496800,D:1,S:496815,C:993630>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20020815
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB_._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 9, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *9)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *9)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 9, disabled)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 9
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [ATF0] (48 C)
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2M: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
ICH2M: chipset revision 3
ICH2M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1800-0x1807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: HITACHI_DK23BA-15, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 29498112 sectors (15103 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1836/255/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 93M
agpgart: agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xf8000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
es1371: version v0.30 time 19:17:01 May 27 2003
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2400, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x864/0x4102) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: Sony      Model: MSC-U02           Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 
Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.  
 sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Adding Swap: 248996k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.4
  kernel build: 2.4.19 #5 SMP Sun May 25 00:53:18 EST 2003
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
  Ricoh RL5C475 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 01:02, mem 0xf4102000
    host opts [0]: [serial irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 3] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
    PCI irq 3 seems to be wedged!
    ISA irqs (<6>    PCI irq 3 seems to be wedged!
    PCI irq 5 seems to be wedged!
    PCI irq 10 seems to be wedged!
default) = 3,4,5,7,10,11,12,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only

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output from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1130 (rev 11)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1132 (rev 11)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2448 (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 244c (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 244a (rev 03)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2442 (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2443 (rev 03)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2444 (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2445 (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2446 (rev 03)
01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8021 (rev 02)
01:02.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2449 (rev 03)

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output from lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
tulip_cb               32528   0  (unused)
cb_enabler              2888   1  [tulip_cb]
ds                      7124   0  [cb_enabler]
i82365                 29000   1 
pcmcia_core            45472   0  [cb_enabler ds i82365]

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when i type "cardctl insert" with the card already in, it beeps twice loudly, which the docs say shows it recognized the card on the first beep and then configured the network okay on the second. all is well so far... but then if i type cardmgr the computer locks up and i have to reboot...

anyone know what i'm doing wrong? a point in the right direction would be utmostly appreciated.

thanks in advance,
ezra