[ale] Lockups on older laptops

[James P. Kinney III]

The newer pcmcia stuff always includes support for the older stuff.
There may be a bug that crept in and has broken something. I was looking
at the pcmcia site a few weeks ago and noticed an update (recent) that
fixed a broken (don't remember the specific card support) card. 

It may be that you have that card. Or the install process is foo-barred.
Make sure the pcmcia network card yu are using is installed during the
7.3 installation. That will force the proper modules to be loaded on
bootup.

I have had intermittent lock-ups on booting an IBM Thinkpad 600E with
RedHat 7.3. I have seen the pcmcia loading seem to be the hanging
culprit. But I have also seen the failure at a few other locations as
well. 

Once the install is over, try booting with no cards in the slots.

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 12:37, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I've tried to install RH 7.3 on an older Toshiba today.  IT can get 6.2
> and 7.0 to install fine.  It seems that when loading PCMCIA support it
> locks up.  Is there a fix or does the new pcmcia kernel drivers no
> longer work with these?
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