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I own a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. I use DSL in my office, so i decide to check if it can power up my Dell. Actualy it cant. It stops on cardmanager and hangs. If i run it without cardmanager support all is ok. But i need it. So can any one tell me what can i do or will authors fix this problem? Thanx.
PS. DSL is realy cool ;-)

How long did it hang for?

Brian
AwPhuch

I waited for an 20 minutes and nothing. Tryed to CTRL+ALT+DEL - no luck. PWR - only after 4 sec.

I also have an Inspiron 8000 basicly the same problem
it locks up scaning the pcmcia/cardbus ...blah blah
if anyone can tell me how to get debug output id be
happy to provide it...ive not tried knoppix but im guessing
its the same problem

i found this info aparently redhat 7.0 had the same problem with the 8000 this was how some guy fixed it..

Fixing PCMCIA
After reading Nicolai Langfeldt's document I decided to install a newer pcmcia package. To do this go to sourceforge and fetch the latest pcmcia-cs package.
Now build and install this package:
# tar xvfz pcmcia-cs-3.1.23.tar.gz
...
# make config
...
[Say 'Y' to "Include PnP BIOS resource checking"]
...
# make all
# make install

Reboot your Linux system and PCMCIA will work!

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