Problem with IRQs

TIA for any help. I have a Sony VAIO laptop (PCG-FX140) that I recently
upgraded from RH8.0 to Fedora Core 1. The problem I am having also
appeared earlier when I tried upgrading to RH9.0 - my solution at the time
was to go back to RH8.0 .

The problem is that the pcmcia driver doesn't load. I think the problem is
due to a lack of IRQs. The error meesage I get (during boot-up) is:

  PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:02.0. Please try
  using pci=biosirq.
  PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 01:02.1. Please try
  using pci=biosirq.
  ds: no socket drivers loaded!

When I look at /proc/interrupts, it appears that all the usually
assignable IRQs (9-15) are indeed used. However, with RH8.0, I would get
the above error message followed by:

Yenta IRQ list 0018 PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000410
Yenta IRQ list 0018 PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000410

And the loading succeeds, with my orinoco wireless card being assigned an
IRQ of 3, according to /proc/interrupts. I checked
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts, and only irqs 7 and 12 are excluded.

It sounds to me like the system is running out of IRQs. Is there some way
to solve this problem? Again, thanks!

- Bob Rinker



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