[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu
Mon Jul 8 09:59:06 EDT 2002


Sometime in July Evan DiBiase assaulted keyboard and produced...

|I'm not entirely sure what it could be (others with more laptop 
|experience probably do), but it would be helpful to see what sort of 
|output the "dmesg" command is giving you on the laptop. Could you send 
|it to the list?


that's probably a good idea. here it is:
<dmesg>
Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile at daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000176e0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000176e0000 - 00000000176f0000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000176f0000 - 0000000017700000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000017700000 - 0000000017780000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000017780000 - 0000000018000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 96128
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 92032 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 531.571 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1061.68 BogoMIPS
Memory: 376060k/384512k available (1119k kernel code, 7932k reserved, 775k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU       933MHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9aa, last bus=4
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.1
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.5
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 720 slots per queue, batch=180
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
PIIX4: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device.
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAP, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB), CHS=2432/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 118k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Adding Swap: 393552k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 07:43:07 Apr 18 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:03.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8c80, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:05.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8ca0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8cc0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.1
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
02:05.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xa000. Vers LK1.1.16
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.0
PCI: Enabling device 02:07.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 02:07.0
Yenta IRQ list 02b8, PCI irq10
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq10
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a
eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:5B:D0:D9
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 10, io 0x0100-0x013f
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 313M
agpgart: Detected an Intel 830M Chipset.
agpgart: detected 8192K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xe8000000 128MB
[drm] Initialized i830 1.2.0 20011004 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0xe8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary

</dmesg>


if there is any more useful info you need let me know.
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