Vasco Figueira wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 4070 CDS, wich works just fine with my
> distribution, Red Hat 6.1( I wanted Debian Potato but i could not have
> it on cdrom nor ftp).
>
> Anyway, I had pcmcia working, for a day or two on wich I could not test
> my 3com 3c589 (Megahertz) ethernet card. But I know (think) that pcmcia
> was working because I heard the beep (only one hi beep).
>
> On the next day, my machine locks up on startup. No ctrl-alt-del, no
> nothing. I hard-rebooted, and entered the interactive startup. I said no
> to pcmcia and when logged in I changed /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to have
> pcmcia=no.
>
> Next, I rebooted, and, as one could expect, the bootup process ran
> trough the end without locking up. But there is no pcmcia.
>
> I ran the ./configure make all make install thing on the latest
> pcmcia-cs package, turn pcmcia=yes again and rebooted. And it still
> locks up my machnie on startup.
>
> The modem is a winmodem, so I need desperatly pcmcia. Not to mention
> that it is a shame to have a nice new Linux system, that hasn't pcmcia
> working... :-)
>
> Any clues how to fix this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vasco Figueira
>
> "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created
> by the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein
> Long live GPL -- [LEI/FCT/UNL, Portugal]
I had a similar problem on my 2100CDT. It turned out to be the sound
driver was making it trip out (I compiled a custom kernel, and compiled
the sound driver in (not as a module)). After compiling the sound
driver (Maestro-2) as a module, the problem went away. Hope this
helps...
--
Morgan [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
He who sacrifices functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves
neither.
