Laptops :: Satellite M45-S165; hangs on boot starting cardmgr

I am trying to boot DSL on my new Toshiba Satellite M45-S165 and everytime it starts up, it gets to the part about finding PCMCIA cards, then freezes as soon as it starts the cardmgr process. I have tried to boot with the option "dsl no{pcmcia}" but it does the same thing. There is no card inserted in my lappy, and I (think I) cannot disable PCMCIA devices in the BIOS. Any suggestions?

Try booting with:

dsl acpi=off

and see if it works.

Also, you can try booting with:

failsafe

and it will disable a lot of stuff that might cause problems.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the obvious boot command:

dsl nopcmcia

I'll give that a shot and report back. I think my mistake was booting with

dsl no{pcmcia}

instead of

dsl nopcmcia.

Has this issue ever happened to anyone else out there?

Good and bad. It boots without PCMCIA now, but now that I am inside DSL, it will not detect my wireless card built in to the laptop. It is an Atheros A5005G wireless adapter, and I am pretty sure that turning off PCMCIA kills the card. Can anyone find a good workaround that will boot without PCMCIA support, then turn it back on again? Sounds like a dumb question, but I have seen some people around me (literally) that have tried to use 802.11g cards with no avail. Any help will suffice, or even a good tutorial on "booting DSL for Windoze users" would be nice.

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