Hi I use DSL v2.3 and boot from CD. Computer is DELL Latitude C810 256MB RAM
System hang at the point PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr
(ok I can use nopcmcia, but I need WiFI LAN card)
any idea?
HansI'd try booting with:
dsl noacpi noapic noapm ... (try them one by one first, then adding one to the other in combination).
As an aside, and strange as this sounds, I have to boot my desktop PIII 550 with nopcmcia or it detects a pcmcia card/bus/something on the motherboard. go figure that out.
AveyYou might be able to get it to work if you boot with nopcmcia and then make changes like this. It worked for a guy with a C810 and a Debian installation:
7. Help! PCMCIA is crashing my laptop! Many distributions come with a PCMCIA card services package that isn't compatible with many of the Dell's (the Inspiron 8000 has this problem for one). The three things you need to do to try and fix it are (do them in this order): 1) Edit your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and change the "include port" line to read as follows: include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff (i.e.: remove the range 0x800-0x8ff). This should cause the lock-up to go away. (Thanks to Marc Swanson for this one) 1) Download the source for pcmcia-cs and recompile it, making sure you answer Yes to the PnP Bios resource checking question 3) If THIS isn't helping you fix it, and your PCMCIA configuration file (under Red Hat this is in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, under Debian it's /etc/pcmcia.conf) has a line that says "PCIC=i82365", then try changing it to say "PCIC=yenta_socket"I just got a second hand Latitude C800 and the nopcmcia cheatcode is the only way to boot DSL. I need this interface. How can I implement the modification of /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in a frugal install? Where should I look for that file?
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How can I implement the modification of /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in a frugal install?
