Satellite M45-S165; hangs on boot starting cardmgr

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Satellite M45-S165; hangs on boot starting cardmgr
started by: Seabass

Posted by Seabass on Aug. 29 2005,01:45

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?

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 29 2005,05:02

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.

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 29 2005,05:03

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the obvious boot command:

dsl nopcmcia

Posted by Seabass on Aug. 29 2005,11:45

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?

Posted by Seabass on Aug. 29 2005,15:08

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.

Posted by Seabass on Aug. 30 2005,20:22

*Bump*

I have booted and tried to start cardmgr once DSL is loaded, but now I can't start it. Also, the card is not detected at all anymore when I boot "dsl nopcmcia". Can anyone help out? It is important that I can use my built-in wireless card with DSL for my courses.