USB Mouse not working with PCMCIA Network Card

[Kai Thomsen]

Salvio wrote:

> Kai Thomsen wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > This most likely indicates an incorrect PCI interrupt (IRQ) routing,
> > and you should try letting the kernel ACPI subsystem configure it:
> >
> > Add the option "acpi=on" (although "pci=acpi" should suffice, you'd
> > be potentially missing other ACPI features) to your kernel boot
> > parameters, either via the GRUB boot menu or, for a permanent
> > change, by appending it to the appropriate "kernel" line in
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf.
> >
> Thanks Kai, I'll let you know how that goes... I do not
> have access to that computer at the moment and will try
> your suggestion later this week.
> 
> What do you mean by:
> 
> "you'd be potentially missing other ACPI features"

If your hardware and BIOS support ACPI (to a certain extent) and you use
"pci=acpi" instead of "acpi=on", you won't benefit from features such as
battery and thermal status, battery/power-button/lid event notification,
hardware ACPI sleep etc.

Of course, which ones of these work depends on Dell's specific ACPI
implementation and the ACPI support in the FC1 kernel.


--Kai