Laptops :: system freeze at boot ond cardmgr

Dear edmastr

In addition to my previous post my suggestion is you do have your port and memory statements wrong in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.

I had one system where DSL booted OK but no cards detected. Finally proofed to be that the right memery area was not included (IBM TP240). In my industrial single board PCs (SBC) I had both port an memory wrong. So far I did not run into IRQ problemns though. Should you have a (arrgh) win95 or later installation at hand that works with your hardware, it can give you hints hat memory and port ranges you should include in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. That solved or at leasted shortened the seeking on one of my SBCs a great deal.

definetly: if your hardware is supported by the kernel, you willl be able to use it as soon as you set the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts right.

When the system finally boots. cardctl info should indicate the type of cards detected. after that you will still require to set up your nic.

HTH
Chris

Thanks for the info, Chris!

I got things to work out, and in case anyone else runs into this problem, here is how I solved it.

I found another website where a guy was trying to install a Debian-based Linux distro on a newer Dell machine and to get wireless to work via PCMCIA. I followed what he did and this is what I ended up with.

Edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file to not include port 0x800-0x8ff. It should look like this:

Code Sample

#include port 0x100-0x4ff , port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
include memory 0xc000-0xfffff
include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff, memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff

include port 0xa00-0xaff

exclude irq 4
exclude irq 7

Then, I edited /etc/default/pcmcia so that it looks like this:

Code Sample

PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS=do_scan=0
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=-f

I then rebooted with PCMCIA hardware detection (switched on by default) and it DIDN'T freeze when trying to run cardmgr!!

Now I just have to figure out how to load a driver... (I am definitely a noob

)

Hope that helps!!

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