boot hung @ "probing for PCIC" (temp fix)

ccm13 · 03-20-2007, 11:31 PM

Hello, this is my second post (first was the intro)! I will try to be brief but provide the pertinent info.

My system: Toshiba Satellite M45-S165 Notebook (1.5GHz Celeron M 370, 512MB DDR, 80GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows XP, 15.4 TFT)
Distro: Slack 10.1
Kernel: 2.4.29

Got everything installed. Booted up and it hung at the following:
"Starting PCMCIA services:
<Probing for PCIC: edit /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia
cardmgr[79]: watching 1 socket"

Actually got a good lead here at LF (encouraged me to join!) at the following post:
LF threadid=206067

Which lead me to the following part of the rc.pcmcia file:

Code:

# Source PCMCIA configuration, if available
if [ -f /etc/pcmcia.conf ] ; then
    . /etc/pcmcia.conf
elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ] ; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
    if [ "$PCMCIA" != "yes" ] ; then exit 0 ; fi
else
    # Should be either i82365, i82092, tcic, or yenta_socket.
    # Can also be set to "probe" (a Slackware addition) which loads
    # each module until one of them works.  (this is the default)
    PCIC=probe
#    PCIC=i82365
#    PCIC=tcic
#    PCIC=yenta_socket
    # The i82092 is found in old laptops and evaluation boards and will
    # not be automatically probed for.
#    PCIC=i82092
    # Put pcmcia_core options here
    CORE_OPTS=
    # Put cardmgr options here
    CARDMGR_OPTS="-q"
    # To set the PCMCIA scheme at startup...
    SCHEME=
fi

I thought my problem was in the PCIC=probe portion, so I commented out the portion of the calling scrpt that called for this script and I booted!

I have NO PCMCIA cards - nothing is installed in the PCMCIA ports.

My questions: Is this for my wireless card? (Atheros)
Why would this hang(if its not my PCMCIA)? PCIC should point to yenta?
I do plan on upgrading my kernel (been a LONG time since I did that, a bit nervous! ;-)
might that take care of it? I'm pretty sure I gotta upgrde my kernel to get my wireless working anyway.

Please be kind while correcting any decorum mistakes! It's been YEARS since I've posted on a help forum!

Thanx,

ccm13

ccm13 · 03-21-2007, 10:16 PM

Upgraded to Slack 11. Same problem.

Did some more research, tried some mods.
ORIGINAL:

Code:

    PCIC=probe
#    PCIC=i82365
#    PCIC=tcic
#    PCIC=yenta_socket

First commented out and uncomented:

Code:

#    PCIC=probe
#    PCIC=i82365
#    PCIC=tcic
    PCIC=yenta_socket

Same results as b4 except the error number was [92]

Changed once again:

Code:

#    PCIC=probe
    PCIC=i82365
#    PCIC=tcic
#    PCIC=yenta_socket

Now I can boot!

Getting a MySQL error, but I'll fix that later! Time to do some kernenl work.

ccm13