Kervin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi,
>
> I have a toshiba satellite 2595 CDT. I installed Redhat 6.0. Whenever
> I boot my computer with PCMCIA enabled I can't use my keyboard or
> pointer, I can't even login.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem or have any clue what might be
> happening? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Had a very similar problem on 4005CDS after installing RH6.0. Also
tried upgrading from 5.2 to 6.0 as another poster suggested but still
had the problem.
It only happened when booting into a runlevel 3 (console) login.
My login prompt was dead. IE no typing, no CTR+ALT+DEL to changing
terms (ALT+F1,F2 etc). Only way out was a hard reboot at the switch.
I found after lots of experimentation that by removing gpm from the
list of things that start at boot. It eliminated the problem. So for
a while I just started gpm by hand after logging in.
Finally I discovered another part of the problem was the fact that
eth0 was being initialized before pcmcia (probably can't happen in
that order)
To resolve it for now I removed pcmcia from the things that are
started by init, and placed it as the first item in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
(the last script called by init) Then placed 'ifup eth0' as the last
thing in that file.
Returned gpm (console mouse) to the list of things that init starts at
boot, so gpm is now called before pcmcia and pcmcia is called before
`ifup eth0'.
This solved the dead login prompt for me.
Another way to do this:
You can adjust the timing and sequence of how and when things are
called in the symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc<NUMBER>.d by changing the names
and numbers, but you better make sure you understand RH init
proceedures firest. They have info on that on one or another link on
www.redhat.com.
I think you could screw things up pretty good there if you don't know
what you are doing very well.
To find out what is conflicting with what you might try removing
everthing but `syslogd' from the things that are started at
boot. (With [as root] typing setup.. then select `system services')
Then add them back one at a time (reboot for each). I'd guess gpm and
pcmcia to be likely candidates.
