There were problems with ExpressCard hotplug last I checked. Getting the kernel to recognize a card when it's plugged in is not possible all the time. Try booting with the card already plugged in and see if it's recognized then. Thanks, Bill Gribble > On Jun 24, 2014, at 6:30, Atte <atte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 06/24/2014 11:03 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> Atte wrote: >>> I got a new laptop without firewire. So I bought a delock pcmcia >>> firewire card >>> >>> The laptop is a Lenovo x220. >> >> I'd guess the card is not PCMCIA but ExpressCard. > > Might be, never used either before, actually I thought they were two > names for the same thing... > >>> NB2: I couldn't see anything in dmesg after inserting the card and lspci >>> is the same with the card attached and detached... >> >> There's your problem. >> >> Try loading the acpiphp module. > > Hmmm > > atte@vestbjerg:~$ lsmod | grep acpip > atte@vestbjerg:~$ sudo modprobe acpiphp > [sudo] password for atte: > atte@vestbjerg:~$ lsmod | grep acpip > atte@vestbjerg:~$ sudo modprobe acpiphp_ibm > ERROR: could not insert 'acpiphp_ibm': No such device > atte@vestbjerg:~$ > > Strange thing (but what do I know), "sudo modprobe acpiphp<tab>" > completes to "sudo modprobe acpiphp_ibm", suggesting that there's no > acpiphp available on the system, still I get no error when loading it > *and* it's not showing in lsmod after attempted load. > > Here's what dmesg have to say: > > atte@vestbjerg:~$ dmesg | tail -n 2 > [ 45.626648] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Tx aggregation enabled on ra = > a0:21:b7:d7:fa:15 tid = 0 > [ 90.387533] acpiphp_ibm: ibm_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed > > Reading http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ExpressCard_slot + your reply, > makes me thing I made the mistake of buying a pcmcia, whereas I in fact > should have bought an expresscard/54. > > -- > Atte > > http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
