[ale] PCMCIA Setup, Compaq Presario 2110us

[Daniel Auchenpaugh]

On cardbus detection, I assume, since it happens if I have my Linksys
card in the slot or not. (By the way, how well are the Linksys cards
supported? I happened to already have one, and I'd really rather not buy
another) Checked the BIOS, everything seems to be fine there. And yes,
Legacy support had to be off to even get the install going.
Tried the excludes, still hangs. I think it has something to do with the
memory allocations. I've tried  two suggestions I found on the web,
neither of those work.

Thanks again!

Daniel Auchenpaugh
-student, SPSUS
-barista, Starbucks 8469
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On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 18:28, Chris Ricker wrote: 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Daniel Auchenpaugh wrote:
> 
> > Howdy folks,
> > Finally got myself a laptop so I could run linux, and now I'm having
> > PCMCIA problems. I'm trying to run Mandrake 9.1 on a Compaq Presario
> > 2110us and when PCMCIA tries to start up, the system hangs.
> 
> What exactly do you mean here? When it boots up and detects the cardbus 
> controller, or when you try to use a cardbus adapter for the first time? The 
> latter's usually a need to exclude in config.opts. The former might be that, 
> but it might be worse....
> 
> I don't have that laptop, but I have an AMD mobile Athlon and they're all
> the same ALi / ATI / AMD hardware. On mine, I've had no major issues running
> the Red Hat betas with either 2.4 or 2.6-pre kernels as long as legacy USB
> support is disabled in the BIOS except with orinoco_cs cards (they work, but
> only after the machine has warmed up for a bit. Other PCMCIA / CardBus works
> instantly after bootup). Check that, check that your BIOS is the latest
> revision, and try something like:
> 
> exclude irq 1
> exclude irq 2
> exclude irq 3
> exclude irq 4
> exclude irq 6
> exclude irq 7
> exclude irq 8
> exclude irq 9
> exclude irq 10
> exclude irq 11
> exclude irq 12
> exclude irq 13
> exclude irq 14
> exclude irq 15
> 
> in config.opts (irq 5 is probably safe).
> 
> later,
> chris
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