There have been many reports of PCMCIA freezing during installation. The reason for PCMCIA freezing is that the resource ranges don't match the hardware. It's not possible to make the default resource ranges work with all hardware (AFAIK) but I have noticed one particularly problematic resource range: 0x800-0x8ff. This one causes crashes on many common Dell laptops as well as other hardware types.
The interesting thing about this range is that other distributions, such as Redhat, has removed it from the defaults. The question is, should we do the same? While it would deviate from the upstream default, it would eliminate many freezes. I don't know what negative effects it could have, though. I have mailed the upstream author and asked about it but he hasn't replied - he's probably on vacation. What do you think? (Please CC me on replies.) -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
