Dell Laptop

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Dell Laptop
started by: Joshoa

Posted by Joshoa on June 22 2005,12:28

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 ;-)

Posted by AwPhuch on June 22 2005,18:23

How long did it hang for?

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Joshoa on June 24 2005,11:27

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

Posted by invictus on June 29 2005,01:46

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

Posted by invictus on June 29 2005,01:54

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!

Posted by invictus on June 29 2005,02:04

i really should register so i could edit my own posts...heh

found one more peice of information...

Many of the Dell i8000 people have already commented on the quirk using the default PCMCIA utils with the probe option turned on. It causes the laptop to turn into a paper weight until rebooting.

I dont know how to fix it.. but this may be the root of the problem

Posted by Jeck on July 01 2005,10:04

Hi everyone! I have the same problem, too. However if I try out to stat knoppix it works. It says cardmgr[87] found and goes on with startup. I'm a newbie my self but if anyone of the hardcore-linux users knows where to get this cardmgr[87] and how to attach it to DSL, then please tell us!
Thanks!