On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Scott Rainaldo wrote:
> My Gateway Solo laptop consistently hangs while online. This has happened with both
>Netscape and kfm under KDE. Once the machine hangs it will not respond to any key or
>the mouse and I have to hit the power button. I believe it has to do with either the
>PCMCIA driver, or X. Does anyone have any idea about this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Scott Rainaldo
>
> Here are my laptop specs:
> Gateway Solo
> Pentium 133Mhz
> 56M
> 3Com 3CXEM556 LAN+modem PCMCIA card
>
I have a similar 3C card, but lan-only, and it does the same once in a
while. It seems to flood the system logs saying PCI bus error.
There was nothing I could do about it. But perhaps check your pcmcia
settings, and allocate a non-shared irq to perhaps make this happen less.
> Here is my software:
> Linux Mandrake 7.1
> Netscape 4.73
> PCMCIA 3.1.14
> XFree86 3.3.6
> kdebase 1.1.2-61mdk
> kdenetwork 1.1.2-17mdk
> ppp 2.3.11-7mdk
>
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Ellick Chan
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Aug 26
