-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry should have clarified, this is the internal mouse toggle thingy. No PS/2 mouse connected.
I agree with you, SuSE's hardware detection should have caught this. I'm a little more than surprised. We were never prompted to create a rescue floppy... I believe there is a tool to do so from the CD. However, is that necessary if I can just boot of the CD? There has to be a way to get to something usefull from there... Thanks Curtis. You have my vote for one of the "most helpful guys" award today. J/K, overall there have been lots of helpful people today. Jarrod On Tuesday 11 February 2003 4:24 pm, you wrote: > Perhaps you can (temporarily) disable loading of the PCMCIA module so you > can work with your system live instead of from a CD or boot floppy? > > It would be a step in the right direction, although certainly not a > solution. Even at that... drat BSD-style Slackware init -- I would tell > you to edit rc.d/rc.modules. :-P Not sure what it would be on a SysV box. > > Of course, that step would have to be from a rescue disk (you did make a > rescue disk, right?). ;-) > > Maybe the wrong PCMCIA chipset is being loaded? That seems unlikely since > SuSE's been around the block and I think their hardware detection routines > must be pretty darn good by now. Maybe there's a conflict? If there is, > you could always disable PS/2 loading and tack on a USB mouse or something. > That may not necessarily circumvent a hardware conflict so much as a driver > conflict. I dunno. > > Sorry for not knowing anything about SuSE. Just some brainstorming that > may or may not be of assistance. Hope it helps, though. > > Curtis. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarrod Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: (clug-talk) (help) Laptop Issue > > > Hey All, > > <knew I should have had my wife do her install at InstallFest> > > My wife has a Toshiba Satellite 2515CDS laptop. The specs are that it is a > Pentium II 233MHz machine with 96Mb RAM and a 4.1Gb HD. The machine has USB > and she's using my old 3Com CardBus NIC for Ethernet. She decided to take > the > plunge and blow away Windows on this machine in favour of SuSE (another > convert for Marcel). > > As I've already done several SuSE installs I figured this one would be > okay. I > looked up this model of laptop and as with most Toshiba's I found it was > supported. So we went through the install, nothing out of the ordinary, it > seemed to go in as we expected. > > Upon final reboot it hung at "Starting kernel PCMCIA". I know that the NIC > card worked with Mandrake and I believe it worked just fine under an > earlier > > version of SuSE. Just to be sure however, we removed the card and tried a > reboot. Same result. FYI, the NIC works perfectly fine under Windows. > > I did a more in-depth Google search this time and found that on some > Toshibas > the PCMCIA conflicts with the mouse. I'm not sure why this didn't come up > during the install (or my previous search). At any rate, I don't know how > to > > get past this and check any logs. The help I found was for a Red Hat > install > > and when I looked on my laptop for the files to edit I couldn't find them. > SuSE must have them somewhere else. > > Anyone encountered anything like this? There are about 17 or so more things > that occur after PCMCIA module is supposed to load. S�bastien recommended > throwing the install CD-ROM and escaping the install somehow and then > checking the logs. I was not overly sure how to do that. > > Thanks, - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D CLUG Treasurer Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPkmIEACQFPa+bt49AQLxHwP/TojpKrNkTNd8CkF7AotJ8MYmqffTqrYE nNHPryVMp9xOaYpB7+SrpujvugNbwPmAjYboe21LszrywsH+vuHePWJEK87slQtH +h38tcryncCfkOTkp3hlPoElBgKFTAA+SD6jwTnZjgVqTSNLumQ9/qIltqSDXyqs EH7Hwa53aMY= =tKTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
