[CLUE-Tech] PCMCIA and Tedhat 7.3 or 8.0

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:20, Ronald Brink wrote:
> I have tried that by having a card in when I installed/and normal boot -
> still hangs.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Match Grun" <match at dimensional.com>
> 
> > Did you have a PCMCIA card installed? Maybe if there was a card, the
> > service would be enabled.
> >
> > Match
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:56:39 -0700
> > "Ronald Brink" <rbrink at 3roses.d2g.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently tried to install RH 8.0 on my new laptop; 2.4Ghz, 1G ram
> > > (Intel motherboard).  When it tries the first boot it stalls (as in
> > > does nothing) trying to start pcmcia.  I have got the same result when
> > > I re-installed RH 7.3.  Both versions, I end up disabling the pcmcia
> > > service.  Currently I don't have a need for the PCMCIA but someday I
> > > would like to use a wireless card.  Any ideas?  With both versions, I
> > > have installed all the required fixes/patches.


Hi Ronald,

If you bring your laptop to one of the Hacking Society meetings in
Golden on a Wednesday night:

  http://hackingsociety.org/chapters/golden/

then I'll be happy to make a stab at diagnosing/fixing the problem.  We
routinely use wireless (802.11b) connectivity at the HS meetings and
there will be at least one spare wireless card that we can use for
testing purposes.

In the mean time, you could try starting pcmcia services (become root
and then use "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start") and then send us any pcmcia-
related output that is subsequently generated in /var/log/messages. 
Thats where I'd start looking to debug the problem.  Other places to
look are Google where you could do searches with the keywords "linux
pcmcia problem" and the name of your pcmcia chipset (which you can get
from "lspci" or "cat /proc/pci").

hth,
Ed

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